fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) (09/18/89)
Andrew Cherenson <sgi!arc%thyme.wpd.sgi.com@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> writes: > In the IRIX 3.3 release for the IRIS-4D, "dog" will send multicast packets ^^^^^^^^ Is this for real? IRIX 3.3 already? What new things can we look forward to in 3.3 and how far off is it? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 NASA Lewis Research Center | Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | email: fsfacca@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
donl@glass.wpd.sgi.com (donl mathis) (09/19/89)
In article <8909181149.AA06699@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov>, fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) writes: > Andrew Cherenson <sgi!arc%thyme.wpd.sgi.com@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> writes: > > > In the IRIX 3.3 release for the IRIS-4D, "dog" will send multicast packets > ^^^^^^^^ > > Is this for real? IRIX 3.3 already? What new things can we look forward to > in 3.3 and how far off is it? Look at it this way. It would be silly for us to think that with systems as complex as ours, we can finish a release (e.g. 3.2) and then just sit around for a while before starting another one -- there is too much to do. We're ALWAYS working on the "next release", and some are working on the one or two after that, or others that may be occuring in parallel for other reasons. We as an engineering department have to try and avoid talking about them in any specific terms, *especially* with respect to dates and schedules and stuff, because as we all know, those things are just management dreams until the reality of it all occurs. So unless something weird happens, there will be a 3.3 release, it is more or less the one after 3.2, and it will have some new, better software in it. If you want a *really good* release, though, you're going to have to wait for it. Also keep in mind that we know its a pain to update and convert, so we honestly try not to overwhelm our customer base with new releases too often. Maybe the slightly longer cycle means we generally put a larger collection of changes and features into each release. If there are serious issues that need to be addressed in the mean time, we can produce subset maintenance releases to take care of them, that have a much shorter development and release cycle, because they are deltas off of the base release. So just relax, and try not to get us in trouble! -- - donl mathis at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA donl@sgi.com