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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Alpha and Beta
Date: 1998/02/19
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Beta-tester="this Bunch of Eejits will Try Anything"
(Microsoft definition)

Alpha="Actual Libraries Processed: Half Already"
(DEC definition)

== Nick Roberts ================================================
== Croydon, UK                       ===========================

Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote in article
<1998Feb17.061908.1@eisner>...
[...]
> Use of the terms "alpha" and "beta" to describe stages of software
> readiness seems to be a PeeCee thing.