Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!dhsieh From: dhsieh@topaz.rutgers.edu (David Shea) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Mac reliability (was RE: An open letter to all ...) Summary: Crashing Macs. Keywords: Macintosh, Bombs, Crashes, Apple II Message-ID: Date: 5 May 90 21:36:43 GMT References: <9005020758.AA27657@apple.com> <12768@smoke.BRL.MIL> <90122.193817WPW100@psuvm.psu.edu> <4025.26418222@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Reply-To: dhsieh@topaz.rutgers.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Rutgers Univiversity, College of Engineering Lines: 39 >Woa. Hold on. Does rutgers have an amazing lack of Macs on campus or >something? Here at Cornell, there are 5 people on my floor (out of 40) >with macs (so, say 10% out of 15,000 have Macs) plus the 200 or so in >the computer centers. I never go a day without hearing someone talking >about how they just lost their paper, project, lab report, etc. when the mac >that they were working on crashed. Yes, Rutgers' 300 or more Macs is barely enough and constantly in demand. But in general, you should realize that if you have more Macs, then you're bound to have more problems, crashes, lost papers,... etc. On the other hand, our students barely use Apple II's. I've never heard from students about Apple II crashes because most of them don't use Apple II's! > I myself lost a 15 hour lab report 3 hours >before it was do while cleaning up some minor things. If you think the Mac >is crashproof, you are certainly insane! You mean you didn't make a backup of a *15 hour* lab report or maybe even save it periodically? And why trust a 15 hour lab report to a Mac if your Appleworks is proven to be reliable? If you've understood what I've written, then you should realize that I certainly didn't think my Mac is crashproof. I merely stated that if a Mac is set up *corretly*, then it *never* crashes. Of course if people start adding patches such as Init's, Cdev's, Da's, and Rdev's to their OS, they should know that they're making their system more unstable. ------------------------------------------------------------- | | ..... | | dhsieh@topaz.rutgers.edu | ........... | | hsieh@zodiac.bitnet | ....... o . | | DaveShea@AOL | ...o... . | | 76106,3566@CIS | .... . | | | ..... | ------------------------------------------------------------- * Why not have the best of both worlds? * * (if you can afford them) * * O O * * \_/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *