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From: jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4D/20 manuals
Message-ID: <39740@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 17:00:30 GMT
References: <8908081436.AA03608@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <8908081436.AA03608@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") writes:
> 
>    You ship buggy, outdated OS software?!!!  That is reprehensibly
> irresponsible.  No wonder people have soo many problems with their
> 4D's.  Any responsible company would ship new machines with the lastest
> revision of software.
> --
> 
> 	Brent L. Bates
> 	NASA-Langley Research Center
> 	M.S. 294
> 	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
> 	(804) 864-2854
> 	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov

We don't ship buggy software to anybody.  And outdated is a matter of taste.
IRIX is more advanced than what most of the rest of the workstation world
is shipping.  The letter suffix indicates that the release is still 
fundamentally 3.1 (as in 3.1D or 3.1G), but that some bugs may have
been fixed, and support for new hardware or software packages added.

Most of our customers complain about us changing the releases too fast.

This kind of tirade seems inappropriate in this newgroup.  It says more
about the sender than anything else.

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
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