Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!Rusty (Fe2O3)Haddock From: Rusty (Fe2O3)Haddock Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: S1 really does live!!! Message-ID: <5835@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 12:40:23 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5835 Posted: Fri Nov 16 12:40:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 20:09:39 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 34 I had promised this response a while back to the person collecting all the S-1 comments. As stated below this is only a general response and there was insufficent time to go one-by-one and reply to all of the messages that were collected. If you'd care to send mail to Gray Huggins you'll have to send it to me and I'll forward via our local DECNet. -Rusty- --------------- Here is a basic reply that I would like to send for now. A more detailed reply might be merrited in the future. S1 lives! I have visited Multi Solutions twice and have been most impressed with the staff and their product. On the second trip, I spent two weeks with MSI to port S1 to the Sage II 68000 system. Their claim is that S1 can be ported to another system in one week. They weren't far wrong, it took four days. After porting directly to the Sage devices, we decided it would be better to port using Sage's Ram Bios. This took another four days. All total, two ports in eight days. As all I have done is use S1 as a programmer to modify low level interrupt routines necessary for the portin, I cannot comment on S1 in general. However, I would like some of the S1 critics to know that it is NOT vaporware. It has been seen and demonstrated, and is not a grad students dream and a marketing guy's hype! I would hope this reply will encourage others to take a real look at S1 and not throw stones based on hearsay. Regards, Gray Huggins This in no way reflects the opion of my employer, Texas Instruments, they simply have provided me with the resources to send this mail. -------