Fwd: [comp.sys.dec] BASIC-Plus-2

From: Nigel Williams Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:33 PM I believe that the nomenclature was DEC-wide, so I can tell what it meant in the 36-bit world. A Field Test was a beta with selected customers, who reported problems encountered on a QAR (very much like an SPR but not going to the same address). At the end of the Field Test, which might ship a number of tapes over the course of the test, a "clock tape" was issued which is the equivalent of a Release Candidate in modern parlance. This came out a couple of weeks prior to release. The TOPS-20 v6 field test involved 6 sets of tapes prior to the clock tape; v6.1 came out just a couple of months after the official release. The v7 field test involved only 3 sets of tapes before the clock tape. I was the official point of contact for the v7 field test at Stanford. Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:RichA at vulcan.com mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org http://www.PDPplanet.org/ http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/