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Subject: Xerox STAR
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 19:26:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 19:26:00 1984
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From:      Jerry Bakin    

I haven't seen a discussion of the STAR in here lately, how about it?
Are users of the STAR happy with its performance?  Does it have a
relational data store?  How easy is software development on it?

We are thinking of getting one to use in a software development
environment to produce software automatically for other targets.  We
would be using the nice graphics (are they available at a subroutine
level?) to create all sorts of software related diagrams, (Transition
Diagrams, Control Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Petri Nets, etc.) and
run those through analysis programs, to generate code for other systems.
Is this feasible to ask of a STAR?  I wouldn't think twice about asking
Multics, but a STAR is sooo much smaller...

Jerry.