SPSL/SPSA a minicomputer database system for structured systems analysis and design

  • Authors:
  • P. G. Sorenson;J. P. Tremblay;A. W. Friesen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIGSMALL '81 Proceedings of the 1981 ACM SIGSMALL symposium on Small systems and SIGMOD workshop on Small database systems
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

The field of computer-aided systems analysis and design is still very young and therefore, as yet, there are few automated aids in existence. Progress, however, is now being made in computer-aided techniques to be used in the development of information systems. Most of the limited number of automated aids available require large computer systems for their operations. This paper describes a computer-aided systems analysis and documentation system which has been implemented on a PDP-11/40 computer running under the UNIX operating system. In particular, the database design and implementation considerations with in a small minicomputer environment of the SPSL/SPSA system are presented. Also the experiences gained in the use of this system are reported. Finally, several extensions to the existing SPSL/SPSA system currently under development are described.