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- From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
- Subject: major OS releases (was Re: anybody care to share thier opinions on the new)
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:27:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.192739.8746@csx.cciw.ca>
- References: <145226@mordor.com> <9208192552@umunk.GUN.de> <bill.714409923@chaos.cs.umn.edu>
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- In article <bill.714409923@chaos.cs.umn.edu> bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu () writes:
- >>root@mordor.com (Chris Mauritz - SysGod) writes:
- >>[lines deleted]
- >>: Well, I think it is time that us "loyalists" start exercising our
- >>: money back guarantee until such time as the product is stable. I
- >>: think, after seeing all the recent traffic here, that I will cancel
- >>: my order and wait for a more stable update or just migrate to OS/2
- >>: for my "traditional unix tasks."
- >
- >gee can i send aix 3.2 back? and maybe the rs6000/550 with 384mb
- >of main and 10gb of hd. gee the tools barf on it every time i get a new
- >os. can i get my $$ back. gee there sb ***no*** bugs anywhere
- >no matter what i do.
- >hey. show me 1, yes 1 os on any, yes any machine which does not have
- >any, any bugs, hickups, whatever during a major upgrade. just 1 now thats all
- >i ask. if you can i will publicly appologize to all persons here.
- >bill pociengel
- >--
- >bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu
-
- Same goes for Hewlett Packard, DEC, et al in my experience. Recently, a
- common addition in major releases has been ANSI compilers. One reason that I
- am not a big fan of ANSI is that most of the first generation ANSI compilers
- were so buggy it wasn't funny. Sometimes I had to add NULLs between parameters
- in functions, eg.:
- open_window(parent_window,window_type,NULL,x_size,y_size,NULL,...);
- If you forgot the NULLs then x_size was random, y_size was set to x_size's
- value, etc. Lot's of support calls to figure that one out...
-
- And here I am saying that major OS releases are buggy. I know that I have sent
- out a few software packages myself that had a few nasty bugs hidden in them. I
- think it is good that people are finding errors. It is a fact of software life
- that some testing must (unfortunately) be left for the gamma testers.
-
- As far as OS programming goes, I am sure the AT ISA architecture is probably
- one of the worst since there are so many variations.
-
- Harry
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