mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) (05/17/91)
I tried to post the following last night, but it looks like it got bounced,
so here it is again with a little more information. This is an update of
ftp.apple.com. and system 7.
ftp.apple.com has been up and down for the last few days. We have added
a limiter (30 connections), but it is still having intermittent problems
which look like they are hardware related. I am headed back to Cupertino
at this moment to swap some hardware and replace a drive which appears to
have corrupted the FDHD images. We do not expect this machine to be back
online reliably until late this morning or early afternoon.
If you ask what takes so long, figure that we are
in the midst of our Developers' Conference, and when you stay up all night
working on the machine, you end up spending some daylight time sleeping. I
wish we could do better for you, but we are stretched to our limits at the
moment.
SO, look for ftp.apple.com to be back up by this afternoon, but I will post
a message to these newsgroups when we are sure it is up and stable (note that
I have not posted anything to this effect yet.) You should avoid apple.com
completely, as the content there is out of date and System 7.0 will not
be there at all. In fact, we are preparing to turn off the ftp access to
that machine completely as soon as ftp.apple.com is stable. (We are not
moving these files to apple.com since it is a production machine and we
cannot take the load ftp already has (prior to system 7). If the new Mac
and drive cannot handle the load, we will offload onto another machine.
Also please note that the FDHD images on ftp.apple.com appear to be corrupt
and must be replaced. Until I get them replaced, the directory will be locked.
I will also post a note when I have replaced these files. Do NOT assume that
they are okay if the directory does not happen to be locked (I have asked
someone else to lock it for me as I am offsite and cannot reach the machine
either at the moment).
So to quickly summarize:
1) Stay off Apple.apple.com, nothing is there and nothing will be put there.
2) ftp.apple.com does contain System 7.0, but is currently down.
3) I will post a message as soon as ftp.apple.com is back up and running.
4) If you get to ftp.apple.com before my message, do not download the FDHD
images (assuming you can get them) as they are currently corrupt. I will
post a note (and you will see new dates) as soon as I replace these files.
5) We apologize that this wasn't up reliably at 11 a.m. PST on Monday, but
that's just the way things go sometime. We are doing the best we can and
thank you for your patience.
6) If you can get the Upgrade kit from a dealer, please consider it. For the
price you get the manuals (not all of System 7.0 is intuitive) as well as
90 days of telephone support direct from Apple.
Thanks for your support and desire for System 7.0; we hope you find it worth
the wait.
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