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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
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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/Pilot 2.0.
Perf ormance Evaluation Tools
All work on the performance evaluation tools is now in the Mesa group or Pilot proper.
Data Managelnent
Ted Linden has been working closely with the DataTalk effort and has been working toward
the formulation of technical requirements for a product data management system. To this
end, an internal DataTalk presentation and technical discussion of data Inanagement
requirements has been scheduled for later this month.
Pioneer
Work on the Pioneer Design Specification continues. Forrest Howard has completed the
decimal arithmetic package from the Piolleer Functional Specification. He is beginning
work on the Bee interpreter.
See the minutes of the Pioneer Teall1 Meetings for more information.
Assignlnents
Ayers: On loan to tools
Bishop: ConLinue to work on DataTalk
Frandeen: Pioneer design speci fication
Horsley: Pilot implementation.
Howard: Pioneer design specification and Bee interpreter.
Lauer: Pilot implementation.
Linden: Common Software and Data Management.
Lynch: Manage Pilot implementation.
Melones: Pilot implementation
Purcell: Pilot implementation.
Redell: Pilot implementation