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Inter-Office MenlOranduJll To Pilot Design Spec Contributors Date January 10, 1978 From Dave Redell Location Palo Alto Subject Results of second meeting on Organization SDD/SD the Design Spec. XEROX Filed on: PilotDS3.memo Our second meeting on January 5 assessed the progress so far and established new goals for getting the various sections submitted for integration. Some modifications to the Table of Contents were adopted and several authorship assignments were revised: 20 January: Sections submitted for integration into first draft. 31 January: First draft of integrated document distributed. Some modifications to the Table of Contents were adopted and several authorship assignments were revised. 5.0 Internal Interfaces (6.0 Algorithms and Databases) 5.1 Low-level Mesa support. [Lauer] To be converted from a subset of the OIS Mesa Functional Spec, in conjunction with Mesa group. 5.2 Input/Output Control System [Jarvis] . Current draft complete and available for review; comments solicited. 5.3 Input/Output Drivers Disks: rigid & local floppy [Jarvis] Current draft complete and available for review; comments solicited. . X-wire & sockets [Dalal] Exists as notes plus a prototype implementation; a prose description being written. RS232 [Schwartz] Current draft complete and available for review; com ments sol icited. . Results of seeond meeting on the Design Spee 2 Tapes: cassette & 9-track [Jarvis] Magnetic cards [Jarvis] Printer [Jarvis] Display /keyboard/mouse [Jarvis] Data Line Scanner [Jarvis] Serial-Interrace [J.arvis] The six items above are all "in limbo", pending clarification of requirements; Pitts will keep an eye on them. 5.4 Dynamic Firmware Loading Facility [Hankins] Meetings with Peter Deutsch and others have raised questions of generality vs. simplicity;