SEditor: Frank P. MathurCalifornia Polytechnic Institute

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Facility connects System upgrades PCs for 32-bit developmentDECs, IBMs, Wangs Language Resources has announced bugger can execute and debug assem-

PC-020, a 32-bit software development bler, C, and Pascal modules with user-Software Research Corp. hascitro- system for the Motorola 68020 micro- defined symbols and statement numbers.duced SNE File Transfer Faclity, a net- processor. PC-020 includes a plug-in The executing program has full access towork software package that lets DEC 68020 CPU board, symbolic debugger, the PC-DOS file system, the companyVAXs and Wang VS mniMcomputers ex- assembler, compilers, and utilities. said.change information with IBM PC-cor- It lets engineers write, assemble, com- The basic PC-020 package costspatible microcomputers and MVS-based pile, test, and execute 68020 code on $5995. Compilers for C and Pascal costIBM mainframes, their IBM PC-XTs, PC-ATs, and plug $895 each.

Users can transfer multiple files con- *currently, make transfer requests on-lIne compatibles. For more information, contactcurrenabatly, files, storean dfrequet in- The plug-in board has a 68020, a Language Resources, 4885 Riverbendor via batch files, store and forward in- 68881 math coprocessor, and one Rd., Boulder, CO 80301; (303) 449-6809.formation through the network, transfer megabyte of RAM. The symbolic de- Reader Service Number 27different file types, and send, receive,and store messages.The program supports all record for- Software middleman replaces DOS

mats for sequential, partitioned data set,virtual storage access method, and gen- Bourbaki's I dir program replaces the sequences of operations, and DOS-leveleration data group files between MVS usual PC- and MS-DOS A> and C> file commands.hosts and other computers. prompts with a full screen of informa- I dir costs $95 and runs on IBM PC s.Network security is incorporated tion, including a sorted list of files in the For more information, contact

through user profiling within SNE or current directory. This middleman Bourbaki, Inc., 615 W. Hays St., POexisting products. brings point-and-select, single-stroke Box 2867, Boise, ID 83701; (208)

Prices are established on a per-com- access via cursor keys to applications, 342-5849. Reader Service Number 28puter basis. The initial license fee isabout $17,500 per host, $5000 perminicomputer, and $400 per micro-computer.

For more information, contact Soft-ware Research Corp., 1 Natick Execu-tive Park, Natick, MA 01760; (617)655-1133. Reader Serice Number 25

R:base 5000 addsmultiuser abilityMicrorim has developed a multiuser

version of its R:base 5000 database man-agement system. R:base 5000 Multi-useris aimed at local area networks conform-ing to the IBM PC-DOS 3.1 networkingstandard.The multiuser version has the same

database management features as theoriginal version, including database de-velopment, application code locking,and a procedural language for complexdatabase development.The programs also offer data security

features such as item-level locking andconcurrency control without user inter- Super-Link is an "intelligent" micro-to-mainframe link that consists of a mastervention. microcomputer control program, a library of mainframe subroutines to handle the

R:base 5000 Multi-user costs $1500. microcomputer interface, and a microcomputer screen manager. The application de-Additional license and manual packages veloper can paint all user screens, create validation criteria for data fields, and gener-are available for $100 per user. ate the necessary mainframe source code in PL/I, Fortran, and Cobol. Superlink

For more information, contact Micro- supports IBM mainframes running VM/CMS, TSO, and CICS, as well as micro-rim, 3380 146th P1. SE, Bellevue, WA computers running SI or PC-DOS. For more information, contact Multi Soft, Sixth98007; (206) 641-6619. Floor, 499 Thornall St., Edison, NJ 08837; (201) 549-7722.

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Relational DBMS Development tools added to DesignAiduses AI concepts Nastec Corp. has added two new de- JaDesign implements Joint Applica-

velopmnent tools and capabilities for its tion Design forms, procedures, andPAnadoxftwarelhastionaldatroducedmana PC-based DesignAid computer-aided methods in PCs. During the session, all

Paradox, a relational database manage- software engineering development user-view prototypes, screens, reports,ment system that uses artificial intel- toolkit. and associated documentation are cap-ligence concepts and has a Lotus-like One new tool is SafeSpan, which tured and then cross-referenced.interface. bridges DesignAid and the Problem SafeSpan costs $1700 per disk.Through machine reasoning, Paradox Statement Language/Problem Statement Volume discounts are available.

hides the underlying coaplexityfrom Analyzer. The other tool is JaDesign, JaDesign is priced by site license atthe user and seeks the fastest way to find which supports IBM's Joint Application $5000. A copy of DesignAid, whichthe answer to a question, the company Design methodology. costs $6900, is required to run JaDesign.claimed. Users type in an example of SafeSpan lets system developers work For further information, contactwhat they're looking for. The program with standard structured analysis and de- Nastec Corp., 24681 Northwesternthen writes a program to find the sign notation (Yourdon dataflow dia- Hwy., Southfield, MI 48075; (313)answer.Paradox uses four aspects in its inter- grams) without becoming fluent in the 353-3300.Paradox uses four aspects in its inter- syntax of the PSL front end. Reader Service Number 32

face: tables, forms, queries, and reports.Each table can hold as many as 260 mil-lion characters in 65,000 rows (records) Data manager insulates applicationsand 255 columns (fields) with 4000 char- n pacters per row and 255 per column. Cincom Systems' new Supra relational patible data manipulation techniques,

Paradox requires an IBM PC compat- database management system for IBM the company said.ible running MS-DOS version 2.0 or mainframes includes a relational data By insulating the physical databasehigher with two disk drives and 512K manager, a physical data manager, an definitions from the conceptual defini-RAM. The package costs $695. information retrieval and application tions and the applications, Supra allows

For more information, contact Ansa development tool, and a facility to auto- for tuning and restructuring of theSoftware, 1301 Shoreway Rd., Belmont, mate logical and physical database physical database.CA 94022; (415) 595-4469. design. For DOS/VSE systems, the base price

Reader Service Number 30 Applications are insulated from logi- is $145,000. For MVS and MVS/XAcal and physical structures within the systems, the base price is $215,000.

Ashton-Tate enhances database. Supra controls or eliminates For more information, contactredundancies, allows the enforcement of Cincom Systems, 2300 Montana Ave.,Framework logical database integrity constraints, Cincinnati, OH 45211; (513) 662-2300.

and eliminates the problems of incom- Reader Service Number 33Framework II, an enhanced version of

the integrated Framework package, con-tains a larger and morepowerful spread- Database system aimed at CAD, CAM, C3I userssheet and a word processor that includesan 80,000-word spelling checker, visible Genisco Computers has unveiled its ics operations that offload portions of apage breaks, and a built-in mail merge High Simplicity series: distributed color task to the distributed workstations. Thecapability. graphics workstations and GBase, a company said this can translate to 25 toFramework II also has telecommuni- high-level graphics database manage- 35 percent of a host computer's process-

cations, database, outlining, and graph- ment system. The series is meant for ing time.ics modules, as well as a programming computer-aided design, manufacturing, GBase allows 2D and 3D transfor-language. and engineering users, as well as for mations, windowing, clipping, 3D-per-The company claims Framework II's communications, command, control, spective viewing, and display list man-

spreadsheet operates twice as fast on and intelligence (C3I) applications. agement. All calculations are performedaverage than the original version does. It The device-based database manager is at the local terminal.also is between two and five times a version of the proposed programmers The series is priced from $14,950.larger, even though it uses the same hierarchical interactive graphics stan- For more information, contact Genis-amount of RAM, Ashton-Tate said, be- dard. co Computers, 3545 Cadillac Ave.,cause of its sparse matrix implementa- GBase provides an applications devel- Costa Mesa, CA 92626; (714) 556-4916tion, which severely limits the space opment toolbox of fundamental graph- Reader Service Number 34taken by unfilled cells in memory.The Framework II spreadsheet also

supports virtual memory, in which extra RPG II compiler available for IBM PCsworkspace can; be accessed from a harddisk or add-in memory boards. The Software West has announced its RAM, and will use any additional mem-maximum array allowed is 32,000 rows RPG II compiler system for IBM PC- ory available. It supports sequential,by 32,000 columns. XTs, PC-ATs, and compatibles. The direct, and indexed (ISAM) fileThe package runs on IBM PC and new version is a rewrite of the processing. The systemn costs $1500.

compatibles with 384K RAM and two company's Z80 implementation. It is For further information, contactdrives. The price is $695. coded in 8086 assembly language for fast Software West, 637 5. Wrightwood St.,

For more information, contact execution. -POBx27,rag,C 969 14Ashton-Tate, 10150 W. Jefferson Blvd., RPG 11 is based on the IBM S/34 P02Box0226OrneCA96;(74Culver City, CA 90230; (213) 204-5570. RPG II and operates under DOS version 54-2.

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