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From: lray@CIVILGATE.CE.UIUC.EDU (Leland Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: SR10.2 and life
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Date: 30 Dec 89 21:11:30 GMT
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>rtp1%tank.uucp@handies.ucar.edu  (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:

>Jeez, so SR10.2 breaks NFS!  There goes my plans for upgrading to 10.2.
>I think I'll just wait and sit this one out for a while.  Sure, I could
>order the new NFS, and maybe it would work, but I'd have to cut a 
>purchase order, get it sent out, install the new tape, and hope it
>works as well as what I've got now.  Couldn't you have built some
>backward compatibility into SR10.2?  What else did you break?  Will

Welcome to the world of workstations, a world where the software grows
and changes daily. Apollo likes to obsolete software; during the time
I've worked with their machines they have changed binary formats twice,
required that all disks be reformatted, and changed their install
procedure quite a number of times. The amount of time I've had to spend
patching and reconfiguring the system has grown.

Of course, I don't really blame Apollo for that. While their software
has molted, so has their hardware, so has their customer service, so has
their sales, and so has their profits. They were well on their way to
recovering when HP bought them.

What I would do, if I had questions about the latest version of NFS (or
any product, for that matter) is to find someone who has it, and get a
copy of the release notes. After reading them, you can decide for
yourself if the upgrade will help you. It is worthwhile to upgrade often
enough so the people at the 800 number can help you. (Quiz: How many 800
number people know why an Imagen printer at SR10.1 truncates lines after
10-15 characters?)


Just spendin' my days,                  Leland Ray
                                        Systems Administrator
  Soakin' in them cathode rays.         UIUC - Dept. Civil Engineering
                                        (217) 333-3821