Re: SGI computer crash (fwd)

Jack Martin Miller (jmiller@spartan.ac.brocku.ca)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:23:00 -0400

At 3:54 PM -0500 13/4/99, svpathre@mmm.com wrote:
>I think this note should be forwarded to SGI's CEO. Considering their
>current business performance, SGI simply cannot afford to ignore these
>design faults. Have you let Bruker know about this? We as customers should
>be more aggressive in getting these issues addressed by the vendors and not
>keep doing R&D (and wasting our time) to solve their problems.
>
>Sadanand Pathre
>612-733-6453
>
>
>

We have about 70 SGI workstations on campus and have never come across the
"design flaw" reported --- it may have been an occurance with a small batch
of systems but if it was widespread the community as a whole would clearly
knpw about it. We have never lost a "mother board" to such a problem.

Jack Martin Miller
Chair and Professor of Chemistry
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1.

Phone (905) 688 5550, ext 3402
FAX (905) 682 9020
e-mail jmiller@brocku.ca
http://chemiris.labs.brocku.ca/~chemweb/faculty/miller/