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- From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
- Subject: Re: Sun vs. Solbourne console speed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.135711.7165@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <15864@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec17.002452.18004@cirrus.com> <15984@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec18.080839.8561@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:57:11 GMT
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- bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
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- >In article <15984@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>....
- >>Or, to put it another way, I've seen no evidence whatsoever that it's a
- >>case of "let's deliberately make the console slow". At most, it's a
- >>case of "yeah, the console is slow, but we don't think it's worth our
- >>while doing things differently to make it faster."
-
- > I buy that on the older machines. I'm curious about one thing
- >though. What is the screen speed on the LX, Classic, and SS10s? The claim
- >made by Sun's own employee at USENIX was that the slow screen speed was the
- >result of a minor bug (and implies an easy fix). I would think that any
-
- My Sun SE told me on Tuesday ( after smiling sheepishly ) that the console
- bug is fixed in the latest PROM release, "2.1 I think, but I'd have to
- check my catalog to be sure. If you had purchased a service contract
- you would have already received it." ( I just love salesmen ... NOT! )
- I told him that tconsole works just fine, thank you.
-
- >reasonable vendor would roll all of the known bug fixes into the next major
- >release. I would have thought would this would appear on the the machines I
- >mention above. If not does this mean that the other bugs mentioned in the
- >paper are still there as well? If yes, they are slow at bug fixing (some
- >would say this is typical of Sun). If no, the conspiracy theories start
- >again.
-
- > Bill Bogstad
- --
- | | Dear Auntie Em, | Eric Brunson
- |o| I hate Kansas. I hate | eric@vistachrome.com
- | | the farm. I hate you. | brunson@math.fsu.edu
- | | I'm leaving. |
- | | Dorothy |
- |o| P.S. |
- | | Took the dog. |
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