Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!becker!censor!comspec!tvcent!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!cornell!vax8530!q4kx From: q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Mac reliability Message-ID: <4032.26445b10@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 6 May 90 21:12:48 GMT References: <9005020758.AA27657@apple.com> <12768@smoke.BRL.MIL> <90122.193817WPW100@psuvm.psu.edu> <4025.26418222@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Lines: 37 In article , dhsieh@topaz.rutgers.edu (David Shea) writes: > >> 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. Actually, I did make backups of the paper. Only one problem... HFS ate them. I didn't write that paper all at one sitting or something. It isn't even the crashes on Macs that get me so much, it just seems that MAC disks go bad very quickly. On my IIgs (and before that, my //e), In the past 7 years I have had 5-5.25" disks go bad and zero-3.5" disks go bad. Yet I have had three Mac disks go bad since I have been here. Something is strange. As for writing my paper on a mac, I had to, it was an Electrical Eng. design course that required me to insert graphs in the documents and then laser print the whole thing. Trying port everything back and forth would have been rediculous at best. Sure, CDEV's that are improperly written shouldn't crash the system, but if they 'follow the rules' which Apple seems to deem are so important, that must mean that Apple engineers feel that programs that follow the rules therefore won't crash the system. If they do indeed crash, something is not wrong with the CDEVs, something is wrong with the system itself. -- Joel Sumner GENIE:JOEL.SUMNER These opinions are q4kx@cornella.ccs.cornell.edu q4kx@cornella warranted for 90 days or q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu q4kx@crnlvax5 60,000 miles. Whichever .................................................... comes first. Never test for an error condition that you can't handle.