The 24-stage software test

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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.



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