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The 24-stage software test

  • alpha: It compiles!
  • beta: It runs on Joe's machine.
  • gamma: It runs on Kate's machine, too.
  • delta: It runs on the network.
  • epsilon: Its stopped running on Kate's machine.
  • zeta: It runs on all machines, but Report crashes.
  • eta: It crashes on the 486.
  • theta: It only works on the 486.
  • iota: It crashes with a serial printer.
  • kappa: It works! But the spec has changed.
  • lambda: It runs, but mysteriously at half the speed of before.
  • mu: It crashes the network.
  • nu: It crashes Kate's machine with Local Bus, Joe's without.
  • xi: It runs, but the printout is garbage.
  • omicron: As above, but crashes after printout sometimes.
  • pi: It sometimes crashes.
  • rho: Kate thinks it works, but it turns out she's running lambda.
  • sigma: No luck yet.
  • tau: Aha, sorted out the printout.
  • upsilon: Nearly there - jus tneed to tidy up the help text.
  • phi: It won't run at all on anything under 4meg.
  • chi: Yippee! It runs perfectly on all the machines in the world.
  • psi: It runs on all the machines in the world except that idiot's from Basingstoke with a customised Pentium.
  • omega: It won't compile.
humor/the_24-stage_software_test.txt · Last modified: 20/12/2021 04:57 by lrosa