Software Reviews : Framework 1.0 Reviewed by Kennon F. Privette,North Carolina State University Publisher: Ashton-Tate,Inc.,10150 West Jefferson Boulevard,Culver City,CA 90230 (213-204-5570) Materials: Six disks,two reference manuals (689 pages total),and two plastic function templates. Price: $695 (available for classroom use at 90% discount in lots of six or more)Availability: IBM Pc and compatibles. System Requirements: 256k memory (384k for using telecommunications),and two disk drives. Effectiveness: Good User-Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Fair

Abstract

Framework is an integrated software package that has database management, word-processing, graphics, spreadsheet, outlining, and telecommunications capabilities along with its own programming language. Framework's programming language (called "FRED") does data manipulation quickly because it works totally from the computer's random access memory (RAM). However, this feature requires at least 384k of memory for serious use and limits the number of analyzable cases to those that can fit in memory simultaneously.