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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sqwest!mch
- From: mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
- Subject: Re: Why no ANSI C compiler?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.193117.9556@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
- References: <921227490@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> <9212309308@hphbbs.E.open.de>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:31:17 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <9212309308@hphbbs.E.open.de> hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen) writes:
- >:
- >: 1. Coherent seems to be on a fast track into a fully
- >: capable os suitable for biz.
- >
- > Fiddle-sticks!
- > I am a professional systems manager (VMS, UNIX, heterogenous
- > networks) for more than a decade now. A COH' system would never
- > have a chance to get integrated into a system environment that I
- > have to manage, since COH' always proves to be unreliable.
- > I'd really wonder if other professionals would do.
- >
- > Those MWC crew has no notion of 'reliability' and 'quality'.
- > The quirks that I revealed in the V4-release are just ridiculous
- > and make it obvious (I can proove it!), that 'testing' is not on the
- > check-list at MWCs'. That's why I called COH' "banana software"
- > (gets ripe at customers site) recently.
- > Customers are a cheap testing suite - seemingly.
- >
- > Anyway, COH' is a toy but not a work-base. At the moment one starts
- > to take it serious, COH' proves to be overstrained.
- I just bought Coherent a month ago. Apparently the debugger is
- non-functional in the release I bought. When I called Tech support
- (still in December) they said that they'd have a new kernel available
- in early February, with debugging support fixed. Of course, the OS isn't
- of any use to me without a development environment that includes some sort
- of debugger, so I installed Linux.
-
- I am aware of the state of testing in many small companies (hint:
- it often isn't extensive). At this point, I'm not going to send
- it back, but I wouldn't say that I'm a satisfied customer either.
-
- Mark
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