dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) (04/13/89)
In article <98683@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.COM (John Plocher) writes: > [Various items deleted] ... 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... It's academic at this point, of course, but the preliminary graphics library is pretty decent, and the revised tape driver works without fault on my Archive 60Mb drive. They probably were getting it together when the plug was pulled...... Or else this is just a testimony to John's efforts at putting out quality product. *Sigh*. After getting all the hardware weirdnesses straightened out, now I have to go get a new version of somebody else's '386 V.3.whatever and make *it* work. Oh well. Life with UNIX goes on. -- Dave Remien - WINCO Computer Eng. Group -{uunet | bigtex}!pmafire!dave- "I'm looking for the same old place. You must mean the old same place. It's right out back, sonny, here's the key." (Firesign Theater, ca. 1970)
plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher) (04/14/89)
In article <625@pmafire.UUCP> dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) writes: >Archive 60Mb drive. They probably were getting it together when the plug >was pulled...... Or else this is just a testimony to John's efforts at >putting out quality product. Whoa! Not Me. Last time I looked, I still had a small bit of humility! Thanks for the tape driver go entirely to John Sully, the graphics stuff to Ken Chapin and a host of hard working customers. Dean Thomas and Sully were the ones who wrote the SCSI driver; Thuan-Tit Ewe did all the compiler fixes; Ali Shamirza was THE DosMerge person for everything. Rex Core takes all the Kudo's for the 286 product, and Phil Rockwood has all my admiration for digging thru the console driver and making it work as well as it does!. Jas Cluff, Ric Brown, Ken, Thuan, and Ali kept all of us honest by being hardnosed about the QA, and Doug "Doc" Moran taught us all the different meanings of "NO" :-) (What part of NO don't you understand?) None of this could have been done without good engineering management, and thanks to Dwight Liu and Tom McCalmont we did it. Microport was a TEAM effort. We all *wanted* it to succeed. I don't think that anyone was putting in less than 10 hour days for the most part, with many doing more than that. Of all the things that are no more, I miss that feeling of "family" we had the most. -John Plocher