theresa@hubbell.ucr.edu (theresa kim) (01/31/91)
COMING SOON TO A MONITOR NEAR YOU! UCRWINDOWS ---------- Sometime in the near future, CS191x of the University of California, Riverside will introduce to all IBM pc users a FREE commercial software package. This package will be a text-based windowing package for IBM compatibles written in 8086 Assembly code, which will allow the user/programmer to open multiple, overlapping windows and then enter and manipulate text in each of these windows. Computer Science 191x, appropriately titled Commercial Software Development, consists of 27 students working under Professor Randall Hyde. The class is divided into three groups, namely the Coding team, Quality Assurance, and Technical Writing & Marketing team. The Coding team consisits of 10 members whose job is to design and develop codes in 8086 Assembly language for manipulation of windows. As the name states, Quality Assurance team, consisting of 9 members, is in charge of assuring that the codes developed by the coders are, indeed completely free of errors/bugs by using various test data, and returning the routines with bugs back to the coders for debugging. The Technical Writing and Marketing team, consisting of 8 members, is responsble for documentation of the internal and external workings of all the routines and advertising of the product by releasing articles in magazines, newspapers, or electronic mail such as this. This product will be available via anonymous ftp sometime in the beginning of April. Additional information, including a definite release date, will be posted in future articles. If you have any questions, send e-mail to Theresa Kim (theresa@ucrmath.ucr.edu), John Gibson (gibso@ucrmath.ucr.edu), or Micheal Griffith (trout@ucrmath.ucr.edu).