[R-SIG-Mac]timing R and R and R and R

Peter Macdonald pdmmac@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:04:42 -0500 (EST)


The majority of people I happen to know with new Macs (not a meaningful
statistical sample, I admit) have switched or are about to switch to OS
10.1 because it is so much more stable than OS 9.2; they were getting
frequent crashes and freezes for no apparent reason but not with OS X.

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 Peter D.M. Macdonald, D.Phil.      McMaster University
 Professor of Math & Statistics     Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Stefano Iacus wrote:
> >
> > Probably this list is a good place to put this question:
> >
> > does it take sense to continue to support old MacOS'es ?
> >
> > I'm looking forward for comments on this.
> >
>
> The computing support people here at UW don't support OS X. This doesn't
> really affect me, but it would affect some people.
>
> I don't know how widespread this sort of thing is.
>
> 	-thomas
>
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