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- From: rmwise@mcigate.apdev.mci.com (Bob_Wise)
- Subject: Re: AIX *IS* BUGGY
- Message-ID: <BxMxGE.AJA@mcigate.apdev.mci.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:24:14 GMT
- References: <1992Oct20.202126.29244@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <15210@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <9346@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
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- In article <9346@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> valdis@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) writes:
- >In article <15210@auspex-gw.auspex.com> tstil@Auspex.COM (Tim Stilwell) writes:
- >>Incidently, each of these global patches was released about every 2 months
- >>for the 1st year! What a great confidence builder! Anyway, if the HW/SW
- >
- >Hmm.. I dunno. From where *I* am, knowing that the vendor cares enough to
- >ship me another patch tape every 2 months improves my confidence.
- >
- >I've never heard MVS flagged as a "buggy" operating system - but IBM was
- >shipping a PUT tape *EVERY MONTH* for about 20 years (Consider that OS/360
- >finally stabilized at MVT 21.8F or so - that's a *lot* of update tapes),
- >and I was still getting monthly PUT tapes for our OS/VS1 system in 1989 -
- >for a operating system announced in 1972.
- >
- >Of course, by 1987 or so, the VS/1 update tapes only had a *new* bugfix
- >on them every 2-3 months - and it would be some obscure thing that
- >would only bite on rare occasions at some sites.
- >
- >Now, if you want to talk about the fact that the monthly update tapes
- >have *too many* fixes on them to be confident, that's a DIFFERENT
- >issue... ;)
- >
- > Valdis Kletnieks
- > Computer Systems Engineer
- > Virginia Tech
-
-
- Who cares how many PTFs there are if the systems are stable? The problem
- is, my RS/6000s crash (or hang) all the time.
-
- -Bob
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