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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: What is a "CSD"?
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:32:41 GMT
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- In article <hatton.716239610@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- > Well, think about it - "corrective service" sounds a lot like what we
- >already have, namely fixes for bugs. So, if you have the revised kernel,
- >the revised vsvga.sys, and so on, then you already *have* the "CSD"!
-
- Nope. You'll have beta patches that will go into the CSD when they're
- finalized. The CSD will be completely debugged versions of these
- patches, plus some that haven't been released to the Net yet. If you
- read the readme files with these patches, you'll notice that they are
- intended only to be used if you have a problem, and not otherwise.
-
- >What's coming will also include *new* goodies - purportedly the 32-bit
- >Graphics Rendering Engine, some 32-bit drivers for VGA, XGA, and, if we
- >are howlingly lucky, SVGA for some chips, ET4000 rumoured to be among
- >them thank-your-favourite-deity. And so on.
-
- Oh yes, this will be there, too.
-
- >So, with new items and functionality, corrective service doesn't really
- >fit - so Service and Performance Pack (or was it the other way 'round)
- >becomes the new name. But people haven't really had time to adjust fully
- >to IBM-speak, and so having just learned "CSD" they aren't willing to
- >give that up as the name for the upcoming release.
-
- Yep. It's now an SPP (I like that abbreviation, I wonder if we can
- make it catch on within IBM...). A CSD implies that no new
- functionality would be added. This was generally the case with OS/2
- 1.x (although the WR5015 CSD for OS/2 1.3 added new VIO fonts and the
- Lockup program...).
-
- --
- |) David Charlap "LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket,
- /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your
- ((|,) patience."
- ~|~ --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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