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- From: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
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- Subject: Re: 4.0.5 A/B/C/D ???
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 22:36:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.161122.6561@cs.yale.edu> <oinq718@twilight.wpd.sgi.com> <BszLxJ.7s6@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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- In article <BszLxJ.7s6@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
- |> And not only will I have to keep track of what's what, but I presume that I'll
- |> actually have *three* things to deal with: The full 4.0.5D release for the R4K
- |> Indigo we recently ordered; the 4.0.1=>4.0.5 maintenance release for our PIs and
- |> R3K Indigos; and a different 4.0.1=>4.0.5 maintenance release for the R3K=>R4K
- |> Indigo upgrade that we ordered.
-
- The upgrade from R3K to R4K Indigo is the same software as the R4K to the best of
- my knowledge.
-
- |> Anyway, is there any particular reason that 4.0.5D couldn't have been made to
- |> support the old hardware, so that a common set of CDs could be used for all our
- |> systems?
-
- There was insufficient people power to do all of the testing and bug fixing
- necessary to meet the schedule.
-
- |> When *will* there be a common release that supports both R4K Indigos
- |> and the older stuff? 4.0.5E? 4.0.6? Any time estimate?
-
- We are investigating this now. I can't promise anything at this point.
-
- |> Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619
- |> Canadian Institute for mark@cita.toronto.edu
- |> Theoretical Astrophysics mark@cita.utoronto.ca
- |>
- |> "Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying." - Dylan, on laundry day
-
- Thanks,
- Bob Green
-