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Hi folks,
Thanks for all the praise. Most ARDI employees have had to sacrifice
a lot in the last few years. Since we've required extra support from
family members who don't necessarily follow the computer industry,
much less emulation issues, the praise is especially appreciated -- it
suggests we're doing something right. The better we do our job, the
harder it is for people who aren't systems level programmers to
understand the complexity of our job.
However, I think I've left you with a mistaken impression. Although
there currently are only three people doing the *development* of
1.99n, ARDI is more than just the engineers. In addition to Mat
Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself, who are the three engineers
currently working on 1.99n, we usually also have help from engineer
Bill Goldman, but he's volunteered to take an extended leave without
pay since our revenues are less than we had hoped. In addition to
Bill's usual presence, we also have Vaune Fischer doing full-time
technical support for us and Melissa Algeo as our on-line services
liason. We also have a good attorney and good CPA, and employ or
contract additional others to do our bidding.
So although there were three engineers who were in the critical path
for releasing 1.99n, that by no means should diminish the important
work other ARDI employees are doing.
As our Linux users may remember, 1.99m had some permission problems.
We've fixed those in two different ways -- our install procedure
explicitly makes the appropriate directory writable and our Browser no
longer dies if it can't write its save files. However, the 1.99m
fiasco pointed out that we have to spend a little time shaking down
the final package, even though we've already spent some time testing
the final binaries.
I need to spend an hour or less reviewing our configuration files,
then I'll start the final package shakedown for E/L. *If* nothing
more surprising is found, E/L 1.99n could be out early afternoon (its
9:30am now). E/L will be released before E/D because, unlike E/D
1.99n, we don't have to squash E/L 1.99n to fit on two HD floppies.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com