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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: USL's Pieper profiled in UNIXWorld (selections)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.000020.12065@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 00:00:20 GMT
- References: <EeUTz9a00WBMQ60ukF@andrew.cmu.edu: <1482@sousa.ltn.dec.com> <Aug09.201214.62367@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Aug09.201214.62367@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU:, barnesdo@CS.ColoState.EDU (douglas barnes) writes:
- : As someone unfortunate enough to have to use actual vanilla AT&T Unix
- : for the 386, as well as their abominable hardware, I can testify that
- : they not only dish out some of the worst products in the universe from
- : a technical basis, but also from the perspective of "documentation,
- : and service, and support, and training..."
-
- AT&T UNIX for the 386 does not seem that bad at all, but then I am used to
- the sludge that is AT&T UNIX Rel 2 on an AT&T 3B15. We had a problem
- reading a cpio file from a tape. We called AT&T. They said they knew of
- the bug. Great, is there a patch available? No. Will it be in the next
- release of the OS? No. Is there a workaround? No. Do you plan to fix
- this problem? No, we don't consider it to be a problem if you can only
- read tapes written by other 3B15s.
-
- SunOS isn't much better unfortunately. I had a problem (again) with cpio.
- Yes we know of the problem. Great when will a patch be available? You
- don't understand, we prioritize our bug fixes. ? Ok, which release of
- the OS will this problem be fixed in? You do not understand, we prioritize
- our bug fixes. (Now I'm suspicious) How long has this bug been known?
- I can't tell you that, its propriety information. At what point does this
- bug occur, I can program around it. I can't tell you that, its propriety
- information. Well, after talking to several other people, I finally find
- out that this bug has been known for several years, and no bug patch is
- ever planned.
-
- --
- Kenneth Ng
- Please reply to kdn5669@hertz.njit.edu for now.
- Apple and AT&T lawsuits: Just say NO!
-