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From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: ISIS V1.2 alpha release available
Keywords: Don't pick it up unless you feel adventurous...
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Date: 16 May 89 13:43:42 GMT
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We are ready to have a few people ``alpha-test'' the V1.2 
version of ISIS.  In principle, this version runs on the
APOLLO 10.1 release of UNIX, the current HP line of machines,
SUN 3 and 4 systems under all releases of SUN OS, and DEC
vaxstations under the various UNIX releases for those machines.

It also allows you to call into ISIS from fortran on the SUN
systems, and from Allegro Common-Lisp, also on the SUN systems.

In practice, we already know that the HP version has a problem
and won't run properly.  Should be fixed shortly.  We are 
interested in feedback regarding other bugs/problems.

Please don't dump this on active users without their consent.
There are enough incompatibilities between V1.1 and V1.2 so
that at least some problems are to be expected.  Your users
will probably resent having to cope with this release of ISIS
without ample warning.

PS: SUN users who don't like or have the LWP library will need
to disable the define "SUNLWP" in the include files isis.h and
pr.h, prior to compiling the system.