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.