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XEROX BUSINESS SYSTEMS System Development Division To: D. Liddle Date: October 24, 1978 From: W. C. Lynch Location: Palo Alto Subject: Status Report Organization: SDD/SD/SS for October 78 Filed on: [Iris] (Lynch )()ctober78.Status Copies: Archives Agh Belleville Bergsteinsson Bewley Bice Clark DeSantis Harslem Heinrich I-Ierold Irby Kennedy Lampson Lazar LeCesne Liddle Lynch Mendelson Metcalfe Miller Reilly, D. Reiley, J. Sonderegger Szelong Townsend Wallace Weaver Wick Wickham White Cc: Ayers Bishop Frandeen Horsley Howard Lauer Linden McJones Purcell Redell Pilot The release date for Pilot 2.0 is October 30, 1978. The alpha lest release date for Pilol 2.0 was Oclober 2, 1978. AHa/Pilot has been delayed. It will be released on a date in November yet to be determined. Experience with the Apex conversion has made increased compatibility with Pilot 2.0 (i n the sense of restricting features peculiar to the Alto) highly desi rable. Not all features of Pilot 2.0 will be supported in Alto/ Pilot 2.0. Staffing and Equi}llllcnt -Negotiations are still in progress with a candidate for the third Pioneer rcq. Pilot Impienlentation Pilot 2.0 was released for alpha test on October 2nd. An update to the alpha testrc1ease was tnade on October 24lh. As of this writing, 116 change requests have been received. Approx imatly 30 of these will be held over to Pilot 3.0. Effort is now bei ng concentrated on the deliverable test programs and on release documentation. Only the microcode exec has been dele led from Pilot 2.0. RS232C communicaLions with the Xerox 800 has been re- i neluded in Pi lot 2.0. Logging has been i neluded in Pilot 2.0. Alpha tesling has been tess rigorolls lhan is desirable. A decision was made in the SDD [Iris] (Lynch >October78.Status October 24. 1978 2 staff meeting to abandon the Apex conversion as it required a gre~t deal more erro'rt than previouly anticipated and would not be completed in time. Jim White has completed RPCP as an alpha test vehicle and successfully run it on Pilot. lerry Morrison is converting some utilities in lieu of Apex. Diamond is being used as an alpha test program. Development Common Software (DCS) Development Common Software is complete and will be released with Pilot 2.0. A compatible release update is planned for inclusion with Alto/