Group Echo Meeting Minutes - 25/1/99

Attendance

Name Email Present?
Matthew Bentham mjb67 Yes
Trevor Boyd tdb26 Yes
David Dunwoody dgd21 Yes
Crispin Flowerday cehf2 Yes
Simon Frankau sgf22 Yes
Simon Freytag sjf34 Yes
Simon Greenway sag25 Yes

Agenda

Finalise program module design
Assign roles to members

Minutes

The major part of the meeting was to agree upon a final structure for the project, so that a detailed specification can be drawn up. This was achieved, with the design agreed upon outlined below.

EDSAC ShortWord LongWord Address Accumulator Kernel Processor Address scr ShortWord multiplier ShortWord multiplicand Accumulator theAccumulator Memory boolean[] theMemory TapeReader ??? Teleprinter ??? GUI ???

Abstract class files are also being created, to include more detail in each class than is present in this overview.

Major Decisions

Module design agreed
Group roles agreed

Tasks

Task	Name	Started	Due	Progress
Prelim Prototyping	cehf2, sgf22, sjf34, tdb26	18/1/99	22/1/99	Complete
Arithmetic	cehf2	18/1/99	ASAP	Complete
Documentation	mjb67	18/1/99	Continuous	10%
Administration	dgd21	18/1/99	Continuous	N/A
Research	tdb26, sag25	18/1/99	ASAP	80%
Project Plan	dgd21, mjb67	18/1/99	29/1/99	25%
Set up RCS	dgd21 -> mjb67	22/1/99	ASAP	0%
Kernel class spec	sgf22	25/1/99	ASAP	10%
TapeReader class spec	tdb26	25/1/99	ASAP	30%
CPU class spec	cehf2	25/1/99	ASAP	10%
Memory class spec	sgf22	25/1/99	ASAP	30%
Filespace management	mjb67	25/1/99	ASAP	0%
(GUI <->) Kernel <-> Memory interface	sag25	25/1/99	ASAP	10%
GUI <-> Kernel interface	sjf34	25/1/99	ASAP	10%
GUI user interface	sjf34	25/1/99	ASAP	10%

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Author: David Dunwoody

Name	Email	Present?
Matthew Bentham	mjb67	Yes
Trevor Boyd	tdb26	Yes
David Dunwoody	dgd21	Yes
Crispin Flowerday	cehf2	Yes
Simon Frankau	sgf22	Yes
Simon Freytag	sjf34	Yes
Simon Greenway	sag25	Yes