Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please. Keywords: Version 1.0 Message-ID: <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 20:15:25 GMT References: <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 20 In article <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes: > This is version 1.0 of a radically new system! > >...Give them time. Let the system develop and mature. I heard Steve Jobs say (more than once) that 1.0 was going to be "bug-free, commercial quality software", not like typical UNIX releases. In point of fact, 1.0 is just as buggy as a SunOS release. In the three days I've had 1.0 up, I've been bitten by half a dozen bugs, and paniced the system once. It seems clear to me that the decision to call this release 1.0 was simply a bow to marketing pressure. 0.95 is more like it. Don't get me wrong; I LIKE my cube, I LIKE the software. I think NeXT is making reasonable progress. But it's not what NeXT claimed it would be, and that does bother me a little; I don't like being misled. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765