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XEROX
BUSINESS SYSTEMS
System Development Division



To: D. Liddle Date: December 18, 1978

From: W. C. Lynch Location: Palo Alto

Subject: Status Report Organization:' SDD/SD/SS
f or December 78


Filed on: [Iris] Copies: Archives Agh Belleville Bergsteinsson Bewley Bice
Clark DeSantis Harslem Heinrich Herold Irby
Kennedy . Lampson Lazar LeCesne Liddle Lynch
Metcalfe Miller Reilly, D. Reiley, J. Sonderegger Szelong
Townsend Wallace Weaver Wick Wickham White
Cc: Ayers Bishop Frandeen Horsley Howard Lauer
Linden McJones Purcell Redell



Pilot
Planning for Pilot 3.0 has been in progress since the Pilot 2.0 release. "Vork has been
concentrated on microcode swapping for the Debugger and on bootstrapping and starting
Pilot. A decision has been taken to have the debugger operate on Pilot in the Teak release.

The bootstrapping and debugger issue has been forced due to the requirement to be able to .
operate the Teak release wi thout model 31 disks. This has caused a significant perturbation
of our previous plans.


Staffing and Equipment
Several good candidates haye surfaced and are being agressively pursued.


Pionccr
Work is proceeding according to Ollr long established direction. The BCe interpreter has
been coded and is in test.


Assignlllcnts
Ayers: On loan to tools

Bishop: Continue to work on Data'falk

Frandeen: Pioneer design speci fication
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Horsley: Pilot itnplcmcntation.

Howard: Pioneer design specification and BCe interpreter.

Lauer: Pilot implementation.

Linden: Common Software and Data Management.

Lynch: Manage Pilot implementation.

Melones: Pilot implementation

Purcell: Pilot implementation.

Redell: Pilot implementation