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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please.
Message-ID: <89270.113616UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 27 Sep 89 15:36:16 GMT
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>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.

Yes, wouldn't it be nice if commercial software were bug-free.

>
>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
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