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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
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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.