3D input, comments on Jim Barton's note

[Jim Helman]

In article <8902281549.AA03342 at aero4.larc.nasa.gov> blbates at AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) writes:
>
>    5. Correct documentation? What's that? 
>
>    6. Quality?! Service?  I hope these have finally been adopted.
>

>       SGI could learn a few things , correction [sic] a lot, from the
>       microcomputer industry, concerning add on equipment and
>       other things.

Easy there.  If you think SGI is bad, maybe you should look around a
bit.  The SUN hotline takes a week to get back to you.  SGI's hotline
usually returns calls within the hour.  We've even had an SGI field
engineer come out at 6:30 on a Friday evening because we needed the
machine for the weekend.  As for the documentation, it's better than
most and improving.  Just compare the G Graphics Library Manual with
the newer GT Graphics Library Manual.

Sure sometimes you get a brainless person or a neophyte on the hotline
who wastes half an hour of your time reading man pages to him/herself
on the phone.  And sometimes SGI can't supply working replacement
parts, such as the latest processor board, in a timely fashion.  But
overall, SGI does better than any other company of its size that I've
dealt with.


Jim Helman
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