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Inter-Office Memorandum To Wendell Shultz Date 23 August 1977 From John Weaver Location ,Palo Alto Subject Status Report Organization SOD/SO Development Environment and Support XEROX XEr.OX SDD ARCHIVES I have read and understood Pages _________To _________ Reviewer :# of Pages Date ----- Ref .,11SP()-.3IS' Mesa General. Progress in Mesa development has been steady. The Mesa Team is currently totany involved in preparation of the Mesa 3.0 Alpha Test release. Mesa 3.0. The elements of this release are essentially complete. Current activity is involved with building and testing the Alpha test version. Preliminary observation of the performance of the new Binder indicates a performance improvement of a factor of 10. Alpha test release is now scheduled for August 31. This represents a slip of about two weeks from the original (June 30) Work Plan. The August 31 delivery was determined during a replan of the Alpha release performed on August 15. We are currently progressing according to that plan. The documentation will be complete in a draft format at the time of Alpha Test release. Tools General. Current Tools Development activity is directed toward formal release of the tools environment to coincide with release of Mesa 3.0. Detailed plans for this release will be developed over the next three weeks. Preview Tools System The preview Tools system was released to Application Development on August 8. This release was made to EI Segundo based support personnel who spent 7 days in Palo Alto attending presentations, reviewing documentation, operating the system, and designing additional tools which they will implement. This system is now available to EI Segundo personnel who wish to experiment with it. STATUS REPORT 2 Program Monitor and Cross Reference These tools are being converted to operate with the Mesa 3.0 system. They will be released coincident with Mesa 3.0. copies: S. Wallace J. Wick