Howdy again ...

[John Plocher]

First of all, let me set the record clear.  In an earlier article I had
said that Microport's management was to blame for the problems.  I was a
bit too general there, and I may have cast a shadow on some people that I
never intended to.  In particular, the problems were directly related to
$$ MONEY $$ matters (and the lack thereof), and NOT to any engineering
issues.  The engineering management did a spectacular job of getting
releases cut and product developed.  When I left there was a new release
of 286 Dos Merge (up to the 2.4 level, with many bug fixes and hercules
graphics support!), a new release of the 286 C compiler with ALL known
bugs fixed (Floating point works, no more kernel panics!), There was even
a complete set of EGA graphics primatives, a high level libgraph.a
interface library, a demo program set with mandelbrodts et al, for both
the 286 and the 386, a new -from the ground up- tape driver that works
with both the everex and the archive controllers, support for the Adaptec
AH "annie" SCSI controller both as an addition to a WD "ST506" controller
and as a primary controller, et al.....


>       And the FSF doesn't have that kind of money to spend, and thier
>goal is to build a Unix system that is totally free of any AT&T code,

Instead of everyone spending thousands on yet another Unix Company, why
not send that money to the Free Software Foundation so that someday soon
we ALL can have a Unix-Like OS?

   -John