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From: johnm@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (John Matzka)
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Subject: Re: obsolete Sequent software
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Date: 1 Mar 91 16:33:48 GMT
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In article <124108@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams) writes:
> Not only is it not leading edge, its so far behind the edge that you
> can't even see wherethe edge is. It doesnt work reliably. It does not
> provide the features I need. As far as I know, they're all software
> problems. If you put a lot of effort into it, you can usually beat
> the system into doing what you want. Its ashame that you have
> to doi so much unnecessary work.

It sounds to me like you have modified a large portion of your system.
If that is the case, how can you still expect it to function perfectly?
Do you test _everything_ that you do to your machine?  And when it does
have problems, do you try to discover why or do you just reboot and
hope that it won't happen again?

As for not providing the features you need, I would have to ask why you
purchased it in the first place.  Obviously it must meet some need or you
would either have purchased something else or replaced it long ago, eh?

>If we were to measure the downtime of our 1 Sequent against the
>downtime of our dozen Suns conbined,  the Sequent downtime would be an
>order of magnitude higher. I long for the ability of running "unstable"

I would be interested to see you put 500+ simultaneous users on a dozen suns.

John Matzka                                                 johnm@cs.orst.edu
Computer Science Dept.                           {ogicse,hp-pcd}!orstcs!johnm
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