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Re: (ASCEND) TNT performance
At 09:48 PM 1/11/98 -0500, Cliff Daniel wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 03:19:19PM -0600, ascend@digistar.com wrote:
>| On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Kevin Smith wrote:
>|
>| > Because it has not been released. It is on strict distribution to
>| > known sites only.
>|
>| Known sites? What has Ascend got to lose if it's released with a big
>| banner on the ftp site that says "there's no technical support for this
>| release" If I can put Windows NT on my machine at home, surely I can
>| handle running beta releases of TNT software.
>
>Because then all of the people would bitch and complain about regression
>testing no matter what disclaimer was put in the release notes.
And I can only take so much abuse :-)
> There was
>an agreement in 6.0b that stated users should not disclose any
>information/problems what-so-ever about 6.0b but did half of them listen?
Actually that clause was removed, so that we can openly discuss such items.
We hoped that would encourage more a participation in the BETA process.
>No. It's in Ascend's best interest to do exactly what they are doing.
If you know it's going to crash in certain ways, it's better to control
who gets it to stress out the other features while you fix that bug. In some
cases we don't *know* this, and that's when they get released for open
BETA...
Kevin
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