Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: in Time, again
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.013742.22079@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <519@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <8969@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Oct10.232037.8263@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Oct11.173420.2020@svc.portal.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 01:37:42 GMT

In article <1990Oct11.173420.2020@svc.portal.com> moose@svc.portal.com writes:
>... The machine is fine.  It runs fine.  It runs fast.  It is
>fun to use.  It did not crash on me.  It did not break my software.  It is
>fine.  It is ok.  Are you getting my point?  

What's your point?  That you've tested it and it works fine?  That's what
every software/hardware developer says, and most of them are telling the
truth, despite all the bugs that show up later.  All you're telling us is
that the thing will work when used *exactly* the way you used it.  That
is some assurance that the thing is not totally broken, but most companies
wouldn't ship totally-broken systems anyway.  (There are exceptions.)  It
doesn't tell us anything about problems lurking in obscure corners.

Realistically, folks, the odds are good that there is at least one bug in
the 68040 that *nobody* knows about yet.  You simply can't buy a machine
built with a leading-edge part like that without some risk of hardware bugs.
-- 
"...the i860 is a wonderful source     | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
of thesis topics."    --Preston Briggs |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry