[Am-info] [OT] I've gone over to the brightly colored side.

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Eric Bennett on 1/18/02 10:07 AM ---

>Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
>> But the best news is, I've yet to see OS X crash.
>
>I sure have.  Although, usually it does not crash, it just gets into a
>state where something (networking, classic, large numbers of OS X apps)
>stops working and although the system is still running you can't get that
>something back without rebooting.  In terms of reliability it's certainly
>better than 9, but it's not yet in the same league as the traditional
>mature Unix operating systems (I have to say I've found Linux to be kind of
>flaky too, but our SGI and DEC boxes simply don't crash, period, unless
>there is a hardware failure).
>

I've seen it become temporarily unresponsive when an application takes a 
dive, but generally cmd-opt-esc brings up the force quit dialog box and 
the OS kills it gracefully. Haven't been forced to reboot yet and haven't 
lost any services, but maybe I'm not pushing the envelope. I honestly 
expected far more problems then I've encountered thus far. Considering 
the youth of this OS and the tricky business of handling the Classic 
environment, I think Apple has done a good job.

Have you found an e-mail client you like? Mail.app just isn't going to 
cut it.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com