Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:19207 comp.sys.mac:20400 comp.sys.amiga:22884 comp.sys.atari.st:11413 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@aramis.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Boycott Apple Again -- Now about Suns Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 88 07:16:40 GMT References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <14301@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <406@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 > You might start by reading the sun-spots digest - you'll see enough bug > reports to make your eyes bug out. Well, I've made my share of postings to Sun-Spots, but I surely wouldn't want them misinterpreted as advising people against buying Suns. Reading an unedited list of problems from users is always a frightening experience. The monthly listing of bug reports from DEC for TOPS-20 was far scarier than Sun-Spots. (Presumably the same is true with VMS, but I don't look at those.) Back when I looked at bug reports published by IBM for MVS, it was amazing what sorts of bugs there were even in that very reliable system. (They even had this special mechanism for giving you last-minute information on which of the patches they published shouldn't be installed because they turned out to create more problems than they solved.) About all one can say is that there are lots of users out there trying lots of things and so they run into lots of problems. Many of them are user confusion, but there are also plenty of bugs. Sun-Spots is mostly a sign of a large and active user community doing lots of interesting things.