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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How to lower the default sound level in Indigo
- Message-ID: <soajfck@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:07:25 GMT
- References: <skdohr0@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Nov21.174742.15547@news.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Nov21.174742.15547@news.yale.edu> dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes:
-
- | Dave Olson (olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com) wrote:
- | : | >If you have 405F or later:
- | : | ^^^^^^^^^^
- | : | Hmmm....Is there now a 4.0.5G or are we up to "H" yet?
- | :
- | : I said 'or later', because somebody always asks. There is no G yet.
- | : Sometime 'soon' (i.e., > 1 day, and less than 6 months) there will be.
- | : It isn't clear yet just what will be in it, or which systems it will
- | : be released for.
- |
- | How about a 4.0.6, certified on all systems? 4.0.{2,3,4} were bad enough;
- | 4.0.5{A,B,C,D,E,F} has been awful. It is high time we had a "reference
- | release".
- |
- | And if we must use letters, let's save them for model-specific bugfixes and
- | increment numbers for real functional enhancements. It seems awfully foolish
- | to have this nice three-level numbering system and never use it.
-
- All the letter releases from D on were model specific. B and C were
- all platforms, and were most definitely bug fixes (that were partially
- model specific).
-
- A lot of people at SGI would like an all platform release 'soon'.
- There is this minor ;) battle between that desire, and the number of
- people to do development and testing on all those platforms in a short
- enough time frame to make it worthwhile (without making other products
- later!).
-
- At this point, I wouldn't hold out much hope (speaking only for myself,
- and not knowing just what upper management thinks) of seeing an all
- platform release before the next major OS release. It is even possible
- that the first minor release of that major release will be machine
- specific (as happened with 4.0, which was only supposed to be used on
- Indigo).
-
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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