Framework launched in 1984, was the first office suite to run on the PC 8086 with DOS operating system. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) In Computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a Software suite intended to be used by typical An even earlier integrated suite, actually comparable to the original Macintosh of 1984 and Lisa of 1982 was produced by Epson, a complete integrated work station based on the previous Z80 processor and CPM operating system with GUI interface and WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") typography on the monitor and printing. Framework offered all this however in the first all-in-one package to run on any PC platform. It preceded by two years the Lotus equivalent. Framework was not separate products with similar look and feel that could share or import or "plug-in" other modules or files, but was a single workspace construct that could contain any combination of word processor, outliner, mini-database and spreadsheet "frames. An outliner is a special Text editor that allows text to be structured as an Outline. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet " The spreadsheet program was superior in its day, offering true 3D capability, where any cell could be "opened" to reveal a separate spreadsheet -- a feat of sheer convenient function never again seen.
In 1983 Robert Carr and Marty Mazner founded Forefront Corporation to develop Framework. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Robert Carr (born 1956 is credited as the architect of GO Corporation 's PenPoint OS. In July of that year, they approached Ashton-Tate to provide the venture capital and to later market the product. Ashton-Tate ( Ashton-Tate Corporation) was a US based Software company best known for developing the popular DBASE Database application Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of Private equity capital typically provided to immature high-potential growth companies Together with a team of six other individuals, Carr and company released the original Framework. The product proved successful enough that in 1985, Ashton-Tate bought Forefront, a year sooner than planned. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar)
Ashton-Tate continued to enhance the product by producing Framework II, Framework III, and finally Framework IV in 1989. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Beginning with Framework III, the company also produced Framework III Runtime and Framework III Developer's Toolkit. These products allowed application developers to create business applications using the internal FRED programming language, and to hide the user interface from the end-users. The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System
Ashton-Tate however did not aggressively market Framework compared to its mainstream dBASE product, and it failed to gain more than a fraction of the market share needed to become a workplace standard. dBase was the first widely used Database management system (DBMS for Microcomputers published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on the As a result Lotus 123 was able to successfully capture both of Ashton-Tate's product niches and in 1991 Borland bought Ashton-Tate and later sold Framework to Selections & Functions, Inc, who is still actively maintaining it. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in Austin Texas. Present versions include HTML generation and an object oriented interactive rapid application development environment. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure Object-oriented programming (OOP is a Programming paradigm that uses " objects " and their interactions to design applications and computer programs Rapid application development ( RAD) is a Software development process, which involves iterative development and the construction of Prototypes It also includes a speech recognition capability for visually impaired and blind users. Speech recognition (also known as automatic speech recognition or computer speech recognition) converts spoken words to machine-readable input (for example to keypresses Blindness is the condition of lacking Visual perception due to Physiological or Neurological factors
While it remains a DOS program, Framework also works on most versions of Windows. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. More specifically, Framework 7 (which is still supported) was the last version which can be run on Windows 95/98/ME or on DOS. Framework 8 and 9 only run on Windows XP although they still run in a separate box within WinXP and provide access to DOS functionality such as batch commands.
Beginning with Framework V (Framework 5) Selections and Functions gradually began to introduce new features to keep the office suite up-to-date. For example, Framework VII (Framework 7) introduced long file names, the Euro symbol (which didn't exist when Framework was first written!) and the ability to display PCX graphics files in Framework. It also fixed a timing error in the Framework source code which had previously prevented Framework from running on newer, faster processors. Framework VIII (Framework 8) introduced the ability to display JPEG and . BMP files and to load such files into Framework databases. Of particular importance, all of the Selections and Functions' versions of Framework added the ability to share "cut and paste" (memory buffer data) between Windows and Framework. For detailed feature lists and screen shots see the Framework homepage listed below.
Programmers at Work (ISBN 0-914845-71-3) credits Robert Carr as the designer and principal developer of Framework. Robert Carr (born 1956 is credited as the architect of GO Corporation 's PenPoint OS.
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