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Article #65Re: Need help in evaluating H/W and S/W
From: works
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1986 08:50
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1986 08:50
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So nice hearing from a disgruntled ex-employee. How does one re-gruntle? Contrary to Mr. Weissman's disparaging hearsay comment, our "multi-window Unix clone" runs quite nicely. It has been in customer hands since November '84 (!) and was beta-sited heavily for six months last year. It is now in full release. And it runs on 80286s, much to our ex-employee's amazement. Let's try to stick to facts and less to Mr. Weissman's unsubstantiated "Last I heard,..." comments. By the way, our "multi-window Unix clone" does a bit more than Mr. Weissman's appellation might suggest. Good networking, 3278 emulation, very fast graphics, a fast file system with file locking, and a kernel based not on Unix but on a real-time operating system kernel are some of the features. Calling it a "clone" is an ad-hominem argument. Finally, Mr. Weissman's claim that Daisy's products are without merit is unsupported. A large customer base and a high repeat-order rate are testimony to some level of customer satisfaction. Are our products perfect? Certainly not. Do our products solve everyone's needs? No. But we do offer a fairly wide range of products to handle very sophisticated needs. And with several hundred programmers and engineers improving existing pro- ducts and creating new ones, we are addressing more and more of the electronic engineer's CAE needs. My fellow employees are not as incompetent as Mr. Weissman's posting might suggest.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!works From: works@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.workstations Subject: Re: Need help in evaluating H/W and S/W Message-ID: <8602060850.AA19381@daisy.uucp> Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 03:50:09 EST Article-I.D.: daisy.8602060850.AA19381 Posted: Thu Feb 6 03:50:09 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Feb-86 05:25:22 EST References: <8601311900.AA20603@well.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca. Lines: 31 Approved: works@red.rutgers.edu