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From: jrv@demon.siemens.com (James R Vallino)
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Subject: Need info/comments on ABE/RT
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Date: 1 Nov 90 19:19:14 GMT
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Has anyone heard of or have familiarity with a product called ABE/RT.  The
product is sold by Cimflex Teknowledge.  My boss is all excited about it.  I
have read through some high level desriptions of it.  My best guess at its
utility is as a CASE tool for system design and architecting.  I think there
may be facilities for simulation and possibly carrying the desing into an
implementation.

I would like to hear any comments about it from someone who has seen or used
the product.  Thanks for any information.



As a humorous aside:


Have you ever sat through or read a description of something and felt
completely baffled and bewildered.  I sure felt this way while reading about
ABE.  I came across the following sentence:  "Each framework specializes the
very general MOP computional model, allowing various applications or parts of
an application to be expressed in particularly perspiuous ways."  I commented
to my office mate that they were even using words which I did not know,
namely, perspicuous.  It at least was worth a good laugh when I looked it up
in the dictionary and found:  "perspicuous - plain to the understanding esp.
because of clarity and precision of presentation".


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Jim Vallino	Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ
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