Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please. Message-ID: <5558@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 18:09:00 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 16 In article <36@centec.UUCP>, egranthm@centec.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes... >Seriously, are things REALLY this bad? [...] However, >if the thing is going to be crashing every few minutes... Well, I have been running my NeXT for about 4 months now. I find the software to be remarkably reliable. In fact, despite full-time operation, I can count the system crashes under 0.9 in this time on two hands. I would expect that the 1.0 operating system is even better. Yes, a NeXT can still crash, but it is certainly not flakey. I suspect that you would see very few crashes. Now, if I only could figure out how to ensure hardware reliability... /ivo welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu