Software Reviews : LP88,Version 4.11 Reviewed by James E. Swiss,North Carolina State University Publisher: Eastern Software Products,Inc.,P.O. Box 15328,Alexandria,VA 22309;(telephone: [phone]) Year of Publication: 1985 Materials: Program disk;user's guide Price: $99.00 System Requirements: An IBM PC,XT,or PC/AT;or a Pc-compatible computer with at least 192K bytes of memory.Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Fair to good Documentation: Fair

Abstract

LP88 is a program for solving large linear programming (LP) problems. It is very powerful and offers a wide variety of options for entering, analyzing and reporting data. Its power and flexibility make 1,P88 a very good tool for researchers in economics and management. However it has a handful of weaknesses in documentation and user-friendliness. Although these weaknesses are not major, they may substantially lessen Lp88's usefulness as a classroom tool.