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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
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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
 
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