cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) (03/16/91)
In article <us6uy1w164w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) writes: >orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb) writes: > >There is a bug in the serial driver in NeXTstep 2.0. It's fixed in 2.1 which >is now available. I was having the same problem. > Version 2.1 of the OS is now out??? How can we get upgrades of it then and is that the reason that the Extended Backups are taking so long to get distributated? -- "Life is pain Highness, anyone who tells | Jeff Cooper you different is selling something." | cooper@plains.nodak.edu | plains!cooper%midkemia - The Dread Pirate Roberts | (701) 235-6495
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (03/16/91)
Yes, version 2.1 is now shipping---I just got a message from neXT yesterday. NeXT lists 10 bugs that have been fixed in this new release (including the infamous motorola tanh() bug). In article <8932@plains.NoDak.edu> cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes: >> >Version 2.1 of the OS is now out??? How can we get upgrades of it then and >is that the reason that the Extended Backups are taking so long to get >distributated? > 2.1 merely changes those portions of 2.0 that need changing---it does not replace the entire 2.0 OS. Thus it is not that big. According to the message I got from Next: "The product consists of 2.88 MB flopppy disks and an instruction manual; the update wont be provided on any other media. Please note this product is being sold at NeXT's cost." "Licensing fees are not assocoiated with each copy of the update software. Thus the Update Set grants the buyer a license to copy and install the NeXT Set software on *any* NeXT computer for which the NeXT software release 2.0 has been previously licensed." The update is product number N7022 (the Update Set 2.1); call 1-800-848-NeXT for assistance. The cost is $50.00 Note that $50 buys about 7 2.88MB floppies, so there must only be around 20MB of changes to make (or maybe 40MB uncompressed). -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
eeta@yoda.byu.edu (03/17/91)
Yes, 2.1 is out... according to a NeXT rep I spoke with, the only real changes are to support color (on the color machines). Other than that, though, he told me it was the same as 2.0. BTW, has anyone received a colorstation yet? I'd like to get a feel for when I might get mine, since I've been waiting for almost 4 months now... Well, 'nuff said. -Don Yacktman eeta@yoda.byu.edu
waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu (03/19/91)
In article <1991Mar16.010412.25643@math.ucla.edu>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: > Yes, version 2.1 is now shipping [...] Anybody happen to know what version of the OS is shipping with new NeXTstations? c.f.waltrip Internet: <waltrip@capsrv.jhuapl.edu> Opinions expressed are my own.
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (03/20/91)
In article <422eeta@yoda.byu.edu> eeta@yoda.byu.edu writes: >Yes, 2.1 is out... according to a NeXT rep I spoke with, the only real >changes are to support color (on the color machines). Other than that, >though, he told me it was the same as 2.0. It's got bugfixes that apply to ALL machines. Some "known problems" with 2.0 are NOT fixed; for example, BIND and sendmail are unchanged. > BTW, has anyone received a >colorstation yet? Yes!! With ROM version 2.3 (v64), NeXT Software Release 2.1 (kernel compiled March 7) and 16MB RAM. In "normal" usage it performed comparably to the "plain" NeXTstation... until I made the Window Server use full-screen 16-bit-deep windows. Then it hurt. Not as badly as an 8MB NeXTstation, but it was not at all happy with me. I'm going to speculate that 24MB is a "reasonable" configuration--note that I've previously only seen these machines demonstrated with the full 32MB installed! The color display only seems to be about 4 times slower than the grayscale, comparable to '030 cubes. Up close, the Italian-made Philips "MegaPixel 17-inch Color Display" is decidedly inferior to the Sony monitors we've seen in demos in that it lacks "crispness"; in particular, small text is quite hard on the eyes. The colors look O.K. This is a machine I'd want to play video games on... but certainly not try any finely-detailed work, and not most DTP projects (except for the very final steps). In fact, for nearly everything I do, I would *not* want to use this machine for any length of time. It really impresses the tourists though... Mind you, I'm comparing NeXTs to NeXTs here; I'd take a NeXTstation Color over a PC or Macintoy any day. One bizarreness: it was impossible to "screw in" the Y cable to the slab; the hex-shaped things next to the connector were missing! -=EPS=-
bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) (03/20/91)
In article <1432@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >In article <422eeta@yoda.byu.edu> eeta@yoda.byu.edu writes: >>Yes, 2.1 is out... according to a NeXT rep I spoke with, the only real >>changes are to support color (on the color machines). Other than that, >>though, he told me it was the same as 2.0. > >It's got bugfixes that apply to ALL machines. > >Some "known problems" with 2.0 are NOT fixed; for example, BIND >and sendmail are unchanged. > Bummer. At least those are things that people with Internet access can pick up at the archive sites. :--|| > [text deleted --SJB] > > -=EPS=- Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "Well, I don't know, but I've been told, in the heat of the sun * * a man died of cold..." Oakland, 19 Feb. 1991, first time since * * 25 Sept. 1970!!! Yippee!!!! Wondering what's NeXT... :-) * **********************************************************************