Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: Umax 4.3 virtual memory problem Keywords: Umax, paging, cow, bug Message-ID: <1990Sep19.210308.6548@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 19 Sep 90 21:03:08 GMT References: <59@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 21 In article jdarcy@encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) writes: >Sun can afford to do this because they have market share. We don't and >therefore can't. In an ideal world of educated customers who didn't >get scared at the mere mention of a system crash and competitors who >would respond in kind instead of taking the opportunity to slime us in >their sales presentations, I'd be all for an open bug list. However, >we don't live in such a world. Perhaps I should point out that this can work both ways. When we were considering a purchase one of Encore's competitors took the opportunity to 'slime' them. We rapidly dropped that competitor from our list of vendors. And we were one of the early purchasers who thereby helped Encore get the ball rolling. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940