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BUSINESS SYSTEIVIS
L.<'j'ystel1l Development Divisioll
To: D. Liddle Date: February 23, 1979
From: J. E. Whitc (for W. C. Lynch) Location: Palo Alto
Subject: Status Rcport for Fcbruary 79 Organization: SDD/SS
Filed on: [lris]Copies: Archives Agh Belleville Bergsteinsson Bewley Bice
Clark DeSantis Harslem Heinrich Herold Irby
Kennedy Lampson Lauer Lazar LeCesne Liddle
Linden Lynch Miller Reilly. D. Reiley. J. Schwartz
Sonderegger Szelong Townsend Wallace Weaver Wick
Wickham White
Cc: SS members
Introduction
Attached are (1) Bill Kenncdy's Progress - Febru([I)'. DAAf; (2) Hugh Laucr's Progress report: Pilot;
and (3) Jim White's Progress. COIJIIJ1llllicalioll aJld 1/0 Software. Systems- Software's major
accomplishments and problcms this month are summarized below.
Systems Software was reccntly reorganized to achieve a more managcable workload distribution.
The attac.:hcd reports retlect this redistribution. Dctails of the reorganization are reportcd in Bill
Lynch's 14 February mcmo elltitled "Systems Software Section Rcorganization."
Major Accomplishments
o First drafts ofSS' 1979 work plans were preparcd.
o A Star-based uscr interface for verification diagnostics was dcmonstrated.
o An RDC and Shugart 4008 were installed on one ofSS' DO Ervls.
o Transfer of text bctween an Alto and IBM System 6 diskctte was demonstrated.
o Pilot 3.0 asynchronous and byte-synchronolls RS232C l11!crocode is operational.
o The Pup Package, r'TP, and OISel> were convertcd to rvlesa 5.0.
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Major Problenls
o Staffing, particularly in the microcode and diagnostics areas, has become a critical problem.
o The unavailability of 00 ENIs and microcode capable of running rvIesa 5.0 prevented Pilot A's release
on 15 February.
o DAM lacks a dual-disk, wide-bodied Alto on which to nm Star 7.1 software.