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Re: (ASCEND) Max 5.0Ap36
I wrote a message about this earlier, please disregard it. I didn't
read ahead in the thread.
Thanks,
Brett Hawn wrote:
>
> Because the new features never work until some other company has already
> gotten there and done it correctly. Because this is not an uncommon
> occurance. Because it is consistent with Ascend since they started to
> constantly be _almost_ right but never on target. Forge ahead all you want,
> I for one would settle for a 'golden' release like 5.0 was. Its basic common
> sense (at least to me) to stop every once in a while and say 'screw new
> features' lets go fix all the ones we still haven't made work right. To my
> knowledge OSPF _STILL_ doesn't work correctly and thats not exactly a new
> feature by anyone's determination. You want to know why we're always
> bitching? Its because simple little things like this are exactly whats wrong
> with Ascend, a complete and total lack everywhere in the company of QUALITY
> CONTROL. _THAT_ sir is why we bitch.
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 12:18:02PM -0600, Stephen Dolloff made some electrons appear in the following form:
> > Garbage like this is really irritating. What we have here is a company
> > who is forging ahead in areas of new technology and communications. They
> > have consistantly continued to develop and support new and emerging
> > features. Not only do you want all of the new features yesterday, but you
> > expect it to work perfectly and then on top of that, you have the gall to
> > publicly criticize them for a one digit typo in documentation the day that
> > it comes out. Can you possibly tell me why this is necessary? Or do you
> > really have nothing better to do?
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The 5.0Ap36 (MAX 400x, 1800, 2000, 200+) has been given to support. This
> > > release contains the following corrections:
> > >
> > > Interesting. The release notes talk about 5.0Ap34. Looks like another
> > > fine example of Ascends quality control in action.
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