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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada and Motif libraries
Date: 1998/02/17
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In article <dewar.887677642@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> The Alpha version of GNAT (version 3.11) is now available to our customers.
> As usual, we will be making a public release of this technology some time
> in the
> future, but no public version is availabl yet.
> 
> Oops, to be clear "Alpha version" here means the version for 
> Alpha OpenVMS. This technology is 100% validated (core + all annexes),
> and is highly compatible with DEC Ada 83.

For full DEC compatibility, the term Robert did not intend to use
(for software still needing to be shaken down by customer trials)
would be "Field Test" :-).

Use of the terms "alpha" and "beta" to describe stages of software
readiness seems to be a PeeCee thing.

Larry Kilgallen