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To: Salah Mohamed who wrote (79120)3/4/2000 5:59:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
Salah -
Adams has been after this windmill since 1986, as the article states. The problem was uncovered by Adams and others working on early OS/2 design. As fate would have it, I was at Boca off and on in 1986 and 1987 (working as a consultant to MSFT on OS/2 driver design). I never met Adams but the "floppy glitch" was common knowledge... along with about 8 million other serious glitches including some major flaws in the 386, which was just taking off...

The Beaumont attorneys based their Toshiba suit mostly on Adams' work. I thought Toshiba had a good defense - after all, they developed a patch and notified their customers in 1991, and corrected the silicon design a year later. Of course OS/2 had been corrected to avoid the problem, as had NT. and the problem never could have happened under DOS or Win9X since those OS designs do not permit concurrent device access.

The reason I said "I doubt if those guys have the technical sophistication to understand much more than the company names" is because even the original Toshiba suit was weak - the lawyers lucked out by suing a risk-averse Japanese company who actually designed the faulty part in the first place. The copycat suits are the crudest kind of shotgun litigation with no particular research into the real liability that any of the defendants might have. I hope CPQ not only wins but then goes and kicks some a$$ in Beaumont...
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