Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!farrier From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: FST question Message-ID: <4510@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 18:06:11 GMT References: <8909300945.AA10599@trout.nosc.mil> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 In article <8909300945.AA10599@trout.nosc.mil> lvirden@pro-tcc.UUCP (Larry Virden) writes: >Network Comment: to #580 by farrier@apple.com > >My math must be rusty - you indicated that High Sierra toold 6 months of >development and 6 months of testing and development. Now are you telling >me that it took 12 months of development and 6 months of testing for >that code that almost no one uses, yet the code that most folks want - >for reading Mac or Apple DOS 3.3 disks - or even MS-DOS disks - isnt >available? Sigh. Oh, and were the 6 testing and 6 development in >simultanousness by different groups? I mean, when _I_ do testing and >development, I seldom spend 16 hrs a day at it - so 6 months of test/devel >is 3 of testing and 3 of devel (roughly). At Apple, we have people who do only do testing, and people who only do development. So yes, the testing and development were done by two different (albiet closely connected) departments simultaneously. I have no idea as to the actual usage of the High Sierra FST, but I *can* tell you the reasoning behind doing it first: we were in development of our CD-ROM drive then, and wanted a simultaneous release on both platforms, instead of only giving Macintosh users access to CD-ROM technology. -- +--------------+-------------------------+ | Cary Farrier | farrier@apple.com | +--------------+-------------------------+