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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: tape drive drivers
Date: 17 Jan 1994 17:42:23 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2heilv$b0t@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <jmonroyCJrt28.L5B@netcom.com>,
Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote:
>Marc WANDSCHNEIDER (storm@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
>
>
>: eeeek!
>
>: 	a while back, some people realized that the chances of
>: 	jm jr actually getting his /qic driver out the door
>: 	were about as great as those of getting him to shut up
>: 	about it, and went and wrote their own.
>:
>	Hmm.... should I make you a liar?

	please do.


[....]> 
>Here's a piece from the README file:
> 
>QIC-40/80 floppy tape driver for FreeBSD
>Steve Gerakines <steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us>
>10/30/93 v0.3
>:
>	Pip-a-roon... bud.

	you're a pretty remarkable person, you know that?  have
	we resorted to taking credit for somebody elses work
	now, since ours isn'g ever going to get out the door?



						marc 'em.
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