[News] AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Apr-2004 20:09 GMT by Mikey C | 283 comments View flat View list |
Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.
Full details on Amigaworld.net
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Posted by mjohnson on 17-Apr-2004 00:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 33 (Graham_nli): From http://www.geek.com/glossary/glossary_search.cgi?g
Gold Master - The final beta version of a program that is ready to be released to the public. The entire goal of the beta process is to arrive at the gold master candidate. Once it is tested successfully, it becomes the gold master and is shipped out to be duplicated (if it's a CD or floppy) and/or uploaded to the Web. The process of creating the gold master is often referred to as "going gold," or you could say that certain software "went gold" when the golden master was released.
From http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=11205
2.4 Goes Gold?
The title of the very first article I saw stated that 2.4 was "going gold." This is a perfect example of incorrect thinking. Going gold usually refers to the fact that a software company has burned a "master CD" for a final product: a "gold CD."
From http://www.jump.net/~fdietz/softgloss.htm#G
Going Gold
A game goes gold, when it is ready for duplication, but has not yet reached the market.
From http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/03/07.7.shtml
OS X Goes Gold Master, Ready To Ship March 24th.
Apple has announced that Mac OS X, their forthcoming, next-generation operating system, has gone Golden Master and will be ready to ship on March 24th.
I doubt that this is any deliberate attempt to initiate a marketing hype, but perhaps the headline should have been "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold master" to avoid the confusion. |
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