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: It's stopped running on Kate's machine. zeta: It runs on all machines, but Report crashes. eta: It crashes with HIMEM.SYS. theta: It crashes without HIMEM.SYS. 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 HIMEM.SYS, Joe's without. xi: It runs, but the printout is garbage. omnicron: 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 -- just need to tidy up the help text. phi: It won't run at all on anything. chi: Yippee! It runs perfectly on all machines in the world. psi: It runs on all the machines in the world except that idiot's
from Basingstoke with the customised Amstrad and DOS 4.01. omega: It won't compile.