Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Mathematica Bug Message-ID: <67401@brunix.UUCP> Date: 6 Mar 91 07:22:47 GMT References: <1991Mar4.035543.19802@wam.umd.edu> <13048@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar5.183930.1701@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Distribution: na Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 23 >>As a second note, I have compiled and (attempted) to run the Cody & Waite >>elementary functions test suite on the NeXT '040 cube. These are FORTRAN [...] >>Absoft FORTRAN, and found quite a few of them would toast my cube so bad >>that I had to yank the power cord: I couldn't get too the monitor, the power >>key wouldn't respond, the mouse and keyboard were dead --- life, as we know >>it, was extinguished in a flash of bits. > >Damn! It's good to mention these things here, it is a lot better though to send an exact description of what happened + code to bug-next@next.com this will certainly interest NeXT and also speed up the process of bug fixing. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet