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- From: jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
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- Subject: Re: What is Beta-test ?
- Message-ID: <14SEP199214485041@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 19:48:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.155238.25372@Celestial.COM>, bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes...
- >In <BuJB84.6C4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
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- >:zzang@stat.ufl.edu (Zhuo Zang) writes:
- >
- >:>Hello,
- >:>I often see some softwares in their release notes
- >:>say that this is a Beta-test version .
- >:>What is it this Beta-test ?
- >:>What kind of features it has?
- >:>Is it available to the public for testing the program?
- >
- >: It means that the program in question is not quite finished, that it
- >:probably has some bugs left in it.
- >
- >You mean like DOS, Windows, and OS/2?
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- Don't forget UNIX and probably every other OS too....
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- >
- >Bill
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