Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 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 References: <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 18 >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 >IfUMust: (217) 244-1765