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From: tony@raid5.uucp (Tony Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: mips 4.51
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.144907.9490@raid5.uucp>
Date: 2 Oct 90 14:49:07 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.020450.14697@cbnews.att.com>
Reply-To: tony@raid5.UUCP (Tony Andrews)
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In article <1990Sep28.020450.14697@cbnews.att.com> mookken@cbnews.att.com (Thomas J. Mookken) writes:
>When is the 4.51 version of the OS coming  out? I did
>get a letter from mips stating that I would receive it in september.
>Does anyone know if it is delayed? I passed up on 4.50
>and decided to wait for 4.51. If it is delayed I would
>like to go ahead and get 4.50 and upgrade to 4.51 later.

I would strongly recommend waiting for 4.51. My experience with 4.50 on
an M/120 has been terrible.  After installing 4.50 I spent the next two
weeks getting to know the MIPS customer support people REAL well.
Eventually, we got workarounds for the most serious problems, but it's
been pretty ugly.

I should point out that overall, I've been impressed with Mips customer
support.  The fact that I did get workarounds in a reasonably timely
manner speaks for their ability to track down and resolve non-trivial
problems.  It's not their fault the release wasn't as solid as it should
have been.

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Tony Andrews				uunet!dunike!onecom!raid5!tony
Array Technology Corp.
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