Date   : Fri, 13 Jul 1984 08:41:37 EDT (Friday)
From   : Jeffrey Edelheit <edelheit@Mitre.ARPA>
Subject: Re: S1 & NCC

Jerry - I don't know if the S1 outfit you are referring to is Multi Solutions
Inc. of Lawrenceville, NJ.  If it is, I have noticed that they have advertised 
in Computerworld for over 6 months, running adverts saying "UNIX is a 
dinosaur, CP/M & MS-DOS are toys......" and "S1 is the only operating system
worthy of the title 'the next world standard'".  I don't know if S1 is
vaproware, but I am pretty sure that I would not want to deal with anyone who 
would place such arrogant adverts.  I would have to wonder how they would 
treat me as a customer.  Furthermore,  after watching the trials & tribulations
of Dick Pick, I personally have doubts about any OS that doesn't have the 
support of either a large installed base (e.g., CP/M, MS-DOS) or a developer
who has some significant size behind it (e.g. AT&T and UNIX).

Jeff Edelheit
(edelheit at mitre)