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From: plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport's Improved Tape Driver
Keywords: revised tape driver
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Date: 13 Apr 89 21:18:16 GMT
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In article <625@pmafire.UUCP> dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) writes:
>Archive 60Mb drive. They probably were getting it together when the plug
>was pulled...... Or else this is just a testimony to John's efforts at
>putting out quality product.

Whoa!  Not Me.  Last time I looked, I still had a small bit of humility!

Thanks for the tape driver go entirely to John Sully, the graphics stuff
to Ken Chapin and a host of hard working customers.  Dean Thomas and Sully
were the ones who wrote the SCSI driver; Thuan-Tit Ewe did all the
compiler fixes; Ali Shamirza was THE DosMerge person for everything.
Rex Core takes all the Kudo's for the 286 product, and Phil Rockwood
has all my admiration for digging thru the console driver and making
it work as well as it does!.  Jas Cluff, Ric Brown, Ken, Thuan, and Ali
kept all of us honest by being hardnosed about the QA, and Doug "Doc" Moran
taught us all the different meanings of "NO" :-)  (What part of NO don't
you understand?)  None of this could have been done without good engineering
management, and thanks to Dwight Liu and Tom McCalmont we did it.

Microport was a TEAM effort.  We all *wanted* it to succeed.  I don't think
that anyone was putting in less than 10 hour days for the most part, with
many doing more than that.  Of all the things that are no more, I miss
that feeling of "family" we had the most.

	-John Plocher