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From: jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: beta testing (was Possible HP-UX compiler optimizer bug (found while making Perl))
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Date: 29 Nov 89 21:10:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM's message of 28 Nov 89 06:43:44 GMT

In article <430014@hpnmdla.HP.COM> darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:

Darryl>      I would also like to say that forthcoming compilers are being
Darryl> beta-tested by a number of HP divisions, ...

Ummm....  Is this inflation?  Inhouse tests used to be called alpha tests.
I guess we should change the request to say that we wished HP would do
gamma tests :-)

Somehow, what the customers want to do with the products is never the same
as what the manufacturer had to do with the products.  After all, we
wouldn't have to ever submit a bug report if that were true :-)

Testily,
Jim