[Richard asked me to edit some private mail and make it public, so here
y'all go! -- James]
Well, here it is nigh on a month since I told you guys to be quiet,
and I still can't get on agora to see what mail I've received since
the beginning of (time) December. :-( Guess we just live in
`interesting' times. Figured I'd drop you a note from work ('cause
your addresses are here, too) and AT LEAST with you Merry Christmas
(or feel free to insert the name of your preferred mid-winter festival).
To bring you up-to-date on our work gossip (it's somewhat public
now, and I'm relieved of my vow of silence.), Accu-Fab, who owns
Oregon Software has made some kind of "agreement in principle" with
Tau Metric corp. (San Diego) in which TM is immediately assuming
engineering management, and almost all engineering development.
Publications, QA, Sales, and Manufacturing stay in Portland. So now
I have to figure out how to write about what folks half a continent
away are developing -- welcome to the global village. The TM folks
seem to think UNIX is just for engineers, and I should use a PC - a
PC not connected to e-mail, or usenet, or even remotely gated to
their development work. I told 'em what that kind of thinking would
get them, and meanwhile am porting many MB of files to a PC disk and
crying every time a name gets bizarrely truncated.
I will probably be at this most of the next two weeks, but figure I
can leverage a few days of vacation out of them during which I might
make some headway against a bulging mailbox :-).
Sorry for the long hiatus. Please pass the word I'm still alive and
developing devilish tricks, and to have a wonderful solstice.
Richard Johnson
again - anyone with a strong desire to talk to me, go ahead and
write me at [email removed] -- they still let me read mail
at work, and I'd enjoy the break.