Preliminary schedule for Keith Ball 02-November-1982 Note : All time estimates are based on continuous work at the alloted task with no other job interruptions. 1) Finish spec on printer driver with enhancements. Includes completion of experiment with Pascal program on methods to do enhancements. Very close to completion of Pascal experiment and final spec. Time : 1 week left Confidence level : 80% too long 2) Implement the new printer driver. Have it attach to the old printer driver which will be assigned to a data com unit number, e.g. /DTACOM1. Time : 3 weeks Confidence level : 70% 3) Evaluate Karasik's data com driver. Determine work needed for completion. Must add handshake protocols at minimum, including ETX/ACK protocol. This should be bidirectional version. Time : 3 days Confidence level : 75% 4) Write spec on needed features to be added to or current features to be changed for Karasik's data com driver. Includes what features exist and how they are done. Evaluation of spec may cause additional changes to the driver to become necessary. This driver's interface must be upwards compatible to the old printer driver, the one without enhancements. This mainly involves tthe unitstatus functions, its parameter blocks and function codes. Time : 1 week Confidence level : 50% 5) Implement changes to data com driver. Includes initial debug time to make driver stable. Time : 3 weeks Confidence level : 40% truely unknown until complete evaluation and spec 6) Change new printer driver to attach to the data com driver. This may include debug on data com driver. Time : 1 week Confidence level : 70% possibly short 7) Fix transporter driver. Bug is currently undefined and very serious. Time : 1 week Confidence level : 25% have no real grasp of problem at this time 8) Redesign omninet disk driver, local disk driver and slot I/O driver. Includes writing spec on all 3 drivers. Needs a major restructure of the slot I/O interface to the 2 disk drivers. The local disk driver needs only the slot I/O interface change, unless problems arise during this investigation. Time : 2 weeks Confidence level : 50% possibly short 9) Implement redesign of disk and slot I/O drivers. Time : 4 weeks Confidence level : 50% most likely short probably 6 wks. 10) Design and implement Network Manager. Time : 4 weeks Confidence level : 50% possibly short Next steps : a) Firm up dates b) build calendar time line c) milestones on a real time basis Time line : (tentative) October November December 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 5...9 1...5 8...2 5...9 2...6 9...3 6...0 3...7 0...4 7...1 tt ccccc vv vvvvv 11 11111 22222 22222 222 22 7777 333 44444 555 -------------------------------------------------------------------- January February March 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 3...7 0...4 7...1 4...8 1...4 7...1 4...8 1...5 8...4 7...1 55555 55555 55 66666 77777 88888 88888 99999 99999 99999 99999 00 00000 -------------------------------------------------------------------- t = Thanksgiving c = COMDEX v = Christmas vacation The numbers correspond to the categories listed in the time estimate above. 0 = category 10, the Network Manager