🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <3517F342.9341446D@teaftech.demon.co.uk>,
> Lawrence Flowers <leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >I assume the lack of questions in this group is a demonstration of how
> >'problem free' Macs are?
> 
> Every now and again there's a "I wonder why it did that?" moment and I'm
> very interested to hear about people's adventures when migrating to OS8-
> there are some problems aren't there? And running newish software on very
> old Macs is another interesting subject. But actual problems with a Mac are
> relatively few, that's true.  
> 
> -- 
> Peter

I don't think macs are trouble free but they stand up to problems better
and they don't suffer from poor installation. When PCs start to go wrong
they seem to go down completely. We upgraded to NT v4 last year and
after three days the icons and buttons/menus stopped functioning
correctly. The system was totally screwed even after a reinstall. Had to
pluck up courage to start amending registers which eventually fixed it.
Since then it has run like a dream and hasn't crashed once since then.
The Macs have crashed a thousand times since then but we've only had one
or two serious problems with 15 Macs and many of those are disk related
(because we do graphics and they sustain a lot of use).

In all I think OS 8 is pretty stable and so is the upgrade. I know there
have been horror stories but I think it's all scaremongering.