Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!lastole From: lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Message-ID: <1991Jan1.172254.5065@athena.mit.edu> Date: 1 Jan 91 17:22:54 GMT Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 32 In reference to a thoughtful and time-consuming exposition (5 pages of well writ ten notes) regarding a new owner's experiences with a NeXT slab eps@cs.SFSU.EDU(Eric P. Scott) writes: >Can I send your posting to rec.humor.funny? alt.folklore.computers? >(BTW, if this really is a serious account, it's touching and sad >(and still terribly funny). It's o.k., we'll get you some >professional help, and I trust that the readership is bright >enough not to follow in your footsteps. I'm sorry, but I'm relateively new to the Unix world (and xrn) and I've only recently received my slab, but I'm missing what's soooo funny. I found Dave's comments on space allocation on the 105MB drive very helpful -- particularly the sizes of various packages. Maybe I'm missing something (I don't fully understand the mechanics of swapfilesizing for example), but I didn't notice any errors or jokes. If you have found errors with Dave's account, I would appreciate knowing what they are rather than reading sarcastic comments on the net by experts like Eric. And in any event, don't we all want to encourage people like Dave for putting their time and effort into helping other users. If Eric's response to Dave's comments become typical, then I certainly will never attempt to make a contribution to the commumnity; do we want to start such a chilling effect? If not, a courteous note explaining any errors would have been more appropriate. With respect to Dave's comments on swapfiles, I'm curious if this really does save 4MB of disk space. Constructive comments on this point would be appreciated. Additionally, like Dave, I have also found that the 040 in my slab has a heat sink and is stamped "68040 SAMPLE". Recently on the net someone indicated that a simple multiply loop crashes on the 040. Is this something related to the SAMPLE 040? Has any recent purchaser of the slab received a box with a production run 040? Thanks in advance.