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XEROX BUSINESS SYSTEMS System Development Division To: D. Liddle Date: September 22, 1978 From: W. C. Lynch Location: Palo Alto Subject:Status Report Organization: SDD/SD/SS for September 78 Filed on: [Iris] September78.Status Copies: Archives Belleville Bergsteinsson Bewley Clark DeSantis Harslem Heinrich Irby Kennedy Lampson LeCesne Liddle. Lynch Mendelson Metcalfe Reilly, D. Reiley, J. Sonderegger Szelong Townsend Wallace Weaver Wick Wickham White Cc: Ayers Bishop Frandeen Horsley Howard Lauer Linden McJones Purcell Redell Pilot The release date for Pilot 2.0 is October 30, 1978. The alpha test release date for Pilot 2.0 is October 2, 1978. Alto/Pilot will be co-released with Pilot. Not all features of Pilot 2.0 will be supported in Alto/Pilot 2.0. Staffing and Equipment A second model 31 has been installed on Dave Redell's Alto. This, together with the use of the double disk on the Sequoia server Alto, is being used for the build of Pilot releases. Pilot cannot be bu ilt on a Single disk Alto. l11e Alto scheduled for delivery to the Pion~er group on August 4th has anived. Negotiations are in progress with a candidate for the third Pioneer' req. Pilot Implcnlcntation As we approach the alpha test release of Pilot 2.0, we are converting control of the Pilot project from Gantl20.sil to a Pilot task list. . Pilot 2.0b was released on August 24th. A pre-alpha release was made on September 5th. Integration of ~111 required components for alpha test has been completed and tested. We are finding only isolated bugs and those at a low rate. [Iris] September78.Status September 22. 1978 2 Effort must now be concentrated on the deliverable test programs and on release documentation. Implementation status is as follows: VFS: complete. Processes: Integrated and delivered in Mesa 4.0 (No further changes for Pilot 2.0) Pilot/Mesa: complete with Pilot 1.0d System: completed with Pilot 1.0c Stream: completed for Pilot 2.0 RigidDisk: complete. StartPilot and the wartscript: complete. Other: OIS communications ar~ complete. The microcode exec has been deleted from Pilot 2.0 The RS232C handler has been deleted from Pilot 2.0 DevelopUlent Common Software (DeS) The M