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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: What is a "CSD"?
- Message-ID: <hatton.716328670@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 20:11:10 GMT
- References: <hatton.716239610@cgl.ucsf.edu> <1992Sep11.213241.13124@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >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.
-
- I was trying to get away from the notion that the "CSD" part of the release
- would be anything to write home about, so I overstated the case. Yes, there
- are several patches that are still not finished - commga and hpfs come to
- mind. But the point was that we are going to be getting *more* than a
- "corrective" package; it includes new things, hence a better name.
-
- >>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...).
-
- Well, I expect that, given time, we can make "SPP" a new part of the
- ever-expanding jargon :-)
-
- Tom
-