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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <01GOCLB2VQ2Q005GCX@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:38:46 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- Rob Spencer, robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au, writes:
-
- >However, I'd like to see DEC port almost everything else first! If they're
- >going to spend development time, please let them spend it on porting
- >products that we use everyday, not products that we may be able to save
- >a bit of time with. It's a bit hard to patch a non-existent image!!
- >(Some stuff is not expected to be available until 1994! Surely you could
- >have sent me a CD distribution of the new images by then!)
-
- The opposite is also true: it is a bit hard to use an image that doesn't
- work.
-
- >but I wouldn't really put a lot of trust in a patch on a
- >fairly new machine (You can't even buy them yet!) compared to a newly
- >compiled program. How many ALPHA gurus can there be in the industry by now?
- >And so what proportion of developers will be able to successfully make use
- >of PATCH?
-
- A newly-compiled program on Alpha is going to be just as buggy as a
- newly-compiled program on VMS. They'll both have bugs, and both will need
- fixes, no matter if these fixes are delivered in the form of patches or new
- images!
-
- If your "stuff" is delivered in 1993 (instead of 1994), but didn't work, and
- DEC had a fix, but couldn't send it to you except by next day air, I'm sure
- you'd rather that Patch worked!
-
- -Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
- Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
-