Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!hulsebos
From: hulsebos@philmds.UUCP (Rob Hulsebos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: a/ux look-alikes etc
Message-ID: <791@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 88 09:19:51 GMT
References: <16349@apple.Apple.COM> <126@fishpond.UUCP> <16505@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: hulsebos@philmds.UUCP (Rob Hulsebos)
Organization: Philips I&E Automation Modules Eindhoven
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In article <16505@apple.Apple.COM> phil@apple.com.UUCP (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>the UniSoft Q/A plan was "well, we just figured to run the csh a while, ...
Sounds familiar. I don't call that Q/A at all.

>As we Q/A'd it, we did not a small amount of work on it to make it robust.
Doing the same overhere.

>UniSoft is very very good at getting a UNIX port up quickly on a strange
>machine. 
Absolutely true. The TCP/IP software works very fine too. It's only the
finishing touch that needs more finishing.

>At Apple, our BASIC Q/A cycle is 12 WEEKS. Enough said?
No. At Philips, it takes about the same amount of time. Only, I think that is
11 weeks to much. The Q/A must be done at UniSoft, not at customer's sites.
For the amount of money involved, I want a ready-to-run release: read in the
tape, and GO!  No tedious checking...

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            same opinion, everybody except the president would be superfluous.