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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.01.18 01:07 PM, Eric Bennett typed: ============

>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).

     Not to disregarding your argument in the least, but there isn't a 
whole lot of future in a DEC box. And maybe not much in an SGi, from how 
things have looked lately. Especially if all the SGi/IRIX apps will port 
smoothly to OS X and give equal or better performance.



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