[Info-vax] When was the peak of Layered Products

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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:04:31 -0800 (PST), johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
wrote:

>On Mar 5, 8:23 pm, urbancamo <m... at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
>> I found this list of retired products from 2002:
>>
>> http://www.software.ufl.edu/cslg/portfolio/VMS-RETIRED-APR02.TXT
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what DECLEARN and DECDESIGN were?
>>
>> Interesting stuff so far - it would be nice to compile a list of 'the
>> best of DEC software'...
>>
>> Regards, Mark.
>
>Don't know about DEClearn, but DECdesign was a software design tool,
>for use on workstations. I don't know its origins, but I do know that
>workstations in general were very very slow to arrive internally in
>many DEC field offices (if you couldn't do it with ALL-IN-1, it didn't
>need doing, according to the end user IT people), which made DECdesign
>and other workstation-based products almost invisible outside the
>specialist workstation groups.
>
> ... [snip]

A couple of my absolute favorites were DECwrite, DECchart, and
DECplan.

DECplan, in particular, was WAY ahead of its time.  I'm not sure we
see anything like its capabilities even yet today in most PM products.