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Doug Deming wrote:
> The beta version [of TS 5] is not optimized for speed.
> It's a natural part of the development process where the
> beta is not optimized for speed but rather for debugging
> and development info.
Sorry Doug, but as a long-time software engineer I have to respectfully
disagree. What you're referring to is sometimes called the "alpha
test". The beta test is SUPPOSED to be a test of what is proposed as a
production version. It may well be that some developers have
bastardized the term and release "beta" versions which they know are FAR
from production-ready. (The term, if I recall correctly, originated in
the hardware-engineering domain long before software was a significant
consumer-market item, and you didn't go to the expense of producing
actual hardware until you were pretty damn sure the gadget was very
close to being production-ready.)
Carroll
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