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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: NeXTstep 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.164709.17243@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:47:09 GMT
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- Allen B writes
- >
- > Considering our semester starts on the 24th, the 3.0
- > release is really too late for me whenever it is. I got
- the
- > impression from early news of 3.0 that I'd have it up and
- > running by now. The date kept slipping and so did my
- chance
- > of using it any time soon.
- >
- > A big "Boo! Hiss!" to missing a summer release date. I
- now
- > either have to close our lab or wait 'til October to get
- the
- > job done right. I'm sure other Universities have similar
- > situations.
- >
- > If NeXT is still aiming at higher education, they're not
- > hitting it very well. Our machines should be stable and
- > consistent all semester long. Making me do an upgrade
- > once a semester is underway is not a way to be my friend.
- >
- > I'm not opposed to coming in weekends and working late
- > nights to get machines upgraded and tested. I'd just
- > rather do it between sessions and not when 440 users are
- > expecting to use our 24 hour lab.
- >
- > Allen B (Not the best NeXTperson to piss off)
-
- (Perhaps the next-best person to....)
-
- I know that Next has been working hard to make sure this
- release is bug-free software (oxymoron?) but having watched
- numerous VMS, AIX, Ultrix, DOS (Ugh) Windows (Ugh
- factorial) come down the pipe, let me say this: Don't
- commit too deeply.
-
- Were I in Allen's shoes I'd upgrade 1 machine in each lab
- to 3.0, and wait and see what happens.
-
-
- On the flip side, I too am eagerly awaiting the release.
- But it will b installed on only 1 machine for two months
- before I consider putting it on the rest.
-