cs@Eng.Sun.COM (Carl Smith) (03/23/91)
> To the Apple folks on the net, I have just a few simple questions.. > 1. Do you admit that a problem exists? > 1.1 Do you wanna see it in action? > 2. Do you ever plan to fix it? > 2.1 Why not? > 2.2 When? > > I am sorry to have developed an attitude about this but I just cant understand > why you (Apple) just seem to be ignoring this. It makes me even madder to > read that 2.0.1 has "Mouse control settings now working in Control Panel" and > "Time and Date settings via Control Panel (as root)". What kind of priorities > are being established there?? Stop adding new features and improving the ksh > and start fixing things that are LONG overdue to be fixed. I've personally seen the Apple folks at Connectathon (which is taking place as I write this) working very hard on fixing this particular problem. They have a simple test to reproduce it (which, by the way, causes failures on other NFS ports as well). This may be a reference port bug and not unique to A/UX. Please be patient with them. They could simply start pointing the finger at others, but they aren't doing that. This attitude is worthy of our respect. Carl
justin@Apple.COM (Justin Walker) (03/23/91)
In article <10338@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> cs@Eng.Sun.COM writes: > >> To the Apple folks on the net, I have just a few simple questions.. >> ... > I've personally seen the Apple folks at Connectathon (which is taking >place as I write this) working very hard on fixing this particular problem. >They have a simple test to reproduce it (which, by the way, causes failures >on other NFS ports as well). This may be a reference port bug and not unique >to A/UX. Please be patient with them. They could simply start pointing the >finger at others, but they aren't doing that. This attitude is worthy of our >respect. > > Carl We appreciate the amount of frustration that this issue has caused, and your collective forbearance while we try to determine the real cause of the symptoms and a potential fix for it as well. I hope you'll appreciate the fact that it isn't easy to comment on a problem that is intermittant and very difficult to reproduce. As Carl indicates, we are hard at work on this problem; we do seem to have a program that can sometimes reproduce it, and it does seem to be more widely spread than just A/UX. We will have more to say later. Stay tuned. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience and support. :-}. Regards, Justin Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * A/UX Engineering | Apple Computer, Inc. | Try visualizing whirled peas. 10300 Bubb Rd, | Cupertino, CA 95014 * -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * A/UX Engineering | Apple Computer, Inc. | Try visualizing whirled peas. 10300 Bubb Rd, | Cupertino, CA 95014 *