Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!nueces!chari From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please. Keywords: Crashes? No! (was: Version 1.0) Message-ID: <1989Sep27.211633.16292@nueces.cactus.org> Date: 27 Sep 89 21:16:33 GMT References: <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <36@centec.UUCP> Organization: Nueces Inc. Lines: 30 egranthm@centec.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes: >Seriously, are things REALLY this bad? I've been working on the powers that >be here to get a NeXT so I could set-up an expert system to write the >lion's share of our Interactive Courseware (after all, there's only so >many ways to run a touch-screen in concert with a laserdisk player). However, >if the thing is going to be crashing every few minutes... No, they are not that bad. In fact, I don't know what these people are talking about. I use my NeXT for everything it is good for and I can count the number of crashes since January on my left hand. Four were from a hardware problem, namely a bad optical. The others were caused by Scene. That's it! I compile, do math, index, read news, unbatch news telecommunicate with a trailblazer etc... Granted, many Unix systems are bulletproof enough so that they can be up for months but, the limited scope of the software on those machines should explain at least part of it. Really, if you are considering buying a NeXT for development purposes and are putting it off to a later date because of "reliability issues", you should have bought one in January. It works fine! Chris -- Chris Whatley chari@nueces.cactus.org P.O. Box 50254 !nueces!chari@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78763 chari@walt.cc.utexas.edu 512/499-0475