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From: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: How does Microport System V/AT handle bad blocks?
Message-ID: <301@uport.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 89 04:18:51 GMT
References: <460@tarpit.UUCP> <326@focsys.UUCP> <464@tarpit.UUCP> <871@sceard.UUCP> <1095@igloo.UUCP>
Reply-To: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher)
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Organization: Microport Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1095@igloo.UUCP> learn@igloo.UUCP (william vajk) writes:
>Flame mode on...what else would one expect....
>
>If it were offered, would you as someone apparently favorably inclined towards 
>microport sink your life's savings into their stock ?
>
>Bill Vajk		| A hypocrite is a gilded pill, composed of two
>learn@igloo		| natural ingredients, natural dishonesty, and
>			| artificial dissimulation.     -Overbury-

Bill,
    A year ago I was a Microport "user" in good old Wisconsin.  I was offered
a chance to give up my University job and move out to California and join the
staff here at Microport.  Not only did I commit my "life savings" (such that
it was...), I committed my financial future and my professional reputation
to the company, in the hope that I could do something to improve the product.
Sure, I could have sat home and bitched at "those guys" over at microport 
every chance I got, but I didn't.  I moved out here and DID something about it.

    In my book, that is more of a risk than any stock could ever be.

    -John Plocher
     Microport Systems