S1 & NCC

[CSTROM at SIMTEL20.ARPA]

Thanks much for posting that entertaining article about the death of
Unix, etc. I am not a very knowledgeable about Unix, so I cannot
comment on the author's claims on that subject, but I do take issue
with the death of CP/M. I assume he means CP/M-80, and though it is
true that software oem's have gone the route of IBM me-tooism and
forced obselescence, the eight bit arena is alive and well. Kaypro,
CompuPro, Morrow, Macrotech, etc. are doing quite nicely supporting
the "dead" operating systems such as CP/M and MP/M-86, and DRI does
not seem to be hurting too much.

What is even more amusing is that nobody on the ARPAnet has EVER seen
S-1 running anywhere as far as I can gather. Whom do they think they
are kidding??? At least Unix is a real product, and its developers are
not out spending all of their time fishing for venture capital, but
rather are working on software development!

It seems like someone should blow the whistle on these characters
already!