plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher) (04/13/89)
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