🚀 go-pugleaf

In <5hc595$ooo@client3.news.psi.net>, os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) writes:
>In article <y57NzgRDAgKT091yn@bigblue.no>, B. Vermo <bv@bigblue.no> wrote:
>>In article <5h35l6$m49@client3.news.psi.net>,
>>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>
>>|Experiencing IBMs support inabilities for several years turned me to NT
>>|or linux.
>>
>>Free Linux has typical DIY support. Does commercial Linux have any support 
>>in your area? And does Microsoft have any support beyond salespeople,
>
>IBM doesn't have any serious support, and you get better support with
>linux over the net when you make a bug report....  Microsoft asks for
>support pay, a lot less than IBM asks for.  Face it, paying for 3

Oh?  $150 on a call for network support, and that's just for a fucking 
phone call if they don't hold you on the phone.  For $200 bucks, I can 
get an IBM technician to come to my site and fix a real problem.  


>incidences when you need one is the cost of support for one incidence,
>and especially if this is aabout an OS trap or file system lockup you
>are getting, and they aren't able to provide a fix within the warranty
>support period, why would you consider paying for that lack of support?
>
>>trainees and 'he is not in today's?
>>
>>I have often thought IBM support was bad. Then I remembered the 
>>alternative, and it immediately seemed to improve. But I have worked
>>with computers for thirty years, and do not need all that much support.
>
>Same here, all I need support for is whn the OS/2 slowsdown to a halt
>for a while when the disk fragmenates peridically or when the file
>system locks up locking up the entire system, or when the OS/2 traps.
>And, I didn't get any support to fix these problems.  They denied that
>these problems ever existed.  They said my RAM memory is probably going
>bad suggesting that I reseat them (if it ain't broken, don't fix them).
>

My FAT disk is heavily fragmented, but where the fuck is the slow down 
or the system locking up because of that.  This is on a system that 
crashes on the average on once in a month or two.


>Yet, a few fixpacks later, I see some of the problems being listed in
>the fix history.  Others are still not fixed.  When I offered something
>that reproduces the problem 100%, they declined saying that program was
>no longer supported, yet it duplicates the very problem on keypress
>which exists when I run the system for more than 24 hours....
>
>>I could manage Linux, but would never dream of using it in a production
>>setting. For that purpose you definitely need commercial UNIX - like
>>AT&T/NCR, not SCO! Or even a real computer like HP-9000 or IBM RS/6000.
>
>;) What makes you think that AT&T unix is better than IBM OS/2?  Now, HP
>is slightly different, yet, I wouldn't really trust their support
>either.
>
>>That would be the alternative for me if OS/2 is not adequate for the
>
>Pardon my correction.  OS/2 would be adequate if IBM was supporting and
>cleaning up bugs...IBM is inadequate, not OS/2, which makes OS/2 junk.
>
>>task. But I would consider very seriously to use OS/2 on the RS/6000...
>
>IBM has done the same foot dragging on AIX, and there is noindication
>based on past experience that IBM would do any different on any
>platform.

Funny, why did VARs vote AIX the top Unix on a dead tie with Solaris?  
Why is RS/6000 the fastest growing IBM platform on the Far East?

>
>>OS/2 for PowerPc is the basis for Warp 5 and has the new device driver
>>model and SMP microkernel in place.
>>
>
>Well, the current one isn't working, what makes me think that the next

According to how my system works so smoothly and fine, the current one 
works, so you can bet I look forward to the next one.  

>one will?  There is even more problems with SMP...

What problems?

>

What did God tell you about His Commandments once again?

Rgds,

Chris



>Best Regards,
>
>Mustafa Soysal
>
>--
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mustafa Soysal               (313) 741-1844 Voice                      TeamOS/2
>MISTIK Systems               (313) 741-1937 Fax          Author of UnTieCom(tm)
>PO Box 7064                                        Authorized Motorola Reseller
>Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7064, USA                            os2@mistik.express.net
>               Online catalog:  http://www.express.net/mistik/
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>


*** The Windows Guide to Impotence ***
Abort, Retry, Fail???
Abort, Retry, Fail???
Abort, Retry, Fail???
>>>crobato@kuentos.guam.net<<<