[comp.sys.ridge] Hi Guys

fink@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (09/19/87)

 I think it say something about Ridges software when THEY don't
 know how to get on the net.
 Ridge makes nice computers but they're software is really bad!

lgy@pupthy2.PRINCETON.EDU (Larry Yaffe) (09/20/87)

In article <791600001@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> fink@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU writes:
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> I think it say something about Ridges software when THEY don't
> know how to get on the net.
> Ridge makes nice computers but they're software is really bad!

    While Ridge software certainly could use further improvement, this
judgement seems rather extreme to me.  How about offering a list of problems
that bother you instead of blanket condemnation?
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weber_w@apollo.uucp (Walt Weber) (09/21/87)

In article <791600001@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> fink@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU writes:
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> I think it say something about Ridges software when THEY don't
> know how to get on the net.
> Ridge makes nice computers but they're software is really bad!

It wasn't that way when I worked in the eastern regional sales office
for Ridge (Lexington Mass).  My site was called "rclex" and was connected
to harvard (mail + full news feed), lincoln labs (mail), and a number of
other local sites.  Corporate was connected to riacs and hplabs for their
primary news and mail feeds, I believe.  The hplabs connection was assumed
to be the lower quality link of the two.

There has undoubedtly been personnel turnover in the last couple of years,
many of whom were involved in the networking effort at Ridge.

...walt...
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