[WinMac] Bleeding edge [WAS: Re: USB-Serial]

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:57:00 -0500

        Dear Jeff,

        I reread your last paragraph, and blended it with what happened just this
morning with a customer who went to save a Quack file for a 28 page
magazine special from a beige G3... The machine locked up, and they had to
restore from a tape from the previous night (Thursday).

        Basically, there's a difference when you have a workstation hooked into a
LAN; and the server that keeps these workstations fed, allows them to pass
files around, and acts as a central repository with daily backups. The
workstations can crash at will, but the server has to be up 100% of the
time - Period.

        The departmental server is the "backstop" when the workstations crash...
And the server MUST have some modicum of stability, or else ALL is lost.

        This whole G3/UPS scenario is bad news: The "backstop" is unproven, and
doesn't even exist.

        To summarize in logical steps:

        1) OS-X only (reasonably) runs on a Tanzania (blue & white) Mac;

        2) There is no redundancy built into the blue & white Mac;

        3) Therefore, OS-X and Tanzania Macs aren't ready for prime time.

        Yours truly,
        Dan

At 07:07 PM 3/26/99 -0700, Jeff T. wrote:

        [cut]

>Part of the problem with these computers is the same as the iMacs face.
>They are breaking new ground and everyone else hasn't quite caught up
>yet. The best idea is to either buy them and deal with the situation, or
>don't buy them.
>
>Jeff T
>thorstadj@macconnect.com

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