RS/Client and RS/1 Consulting

If I Like RS/1 so much...

You've used RS/1 to analyze factory floor data for years. You've accumulated hundreds of RPL routines to tease the meaning out of databases, turning raw data into real information. And along the way, you've grown attached to the RS/1 command line interface, and its interesting quirks.

...Why are my users all complaining?

Your users -- your people on the factory floor, looking at the graphs you've programmed, using the menu system you've designed -- have revolted. Give us something easier!, they say, We like mice, we like point-and-click, we like interactive help! You want to help them, but how?

A Better RS/1 than RS/1!

Finally, a solution for you and your users. The new object-oriented toolkit lets you build high-quality point-and-click interfaces in the RPL that you've come to love! Click to read data into a graph, click to look at notes, click to perform any complex analysis! Best of all, the toolkit is 100% standard RPL, helping you preserve your investment.

Take a look at these unretouched screen shots -- they show pictures of tabbed dialog boxes of paretos, pie charts, histograms -- all of the tools that you need. The pictures don't move, but the actual objects sure do! The help tab leads to full, Windows-style help; the preferences tab gives complete control over the looks of the objects.
Interactive Pareto
Color Wafer Plot
Spider Graph
Pie Chart
Histogram
Table Editor

But there's more! You can make complete dialog boxes with the toolkit, as the FindPub Assistant shows.

The RS/1 versions of all these displays are fully interactive -- click anywhere and drill down. Not only that, but the object-oriented nature of the toolkit lets you create a custom object that looks in your databases, and drills down using your logic quickly and easily.

Expand Your Horizons

The best part of the toolkit is the way that you can create your own analysis objects! From simple customization to read in your data, to the latest graph, it's all within your reach. Take a look at this Piechart Animation. The example shows a unique way of looking at time-series data: animation! From a series of tables with piechart data -- the actual data is the number of government employees divided into categories -- an aninated piechart is displayed. You can animate forward, backwards, and stop at any point. Imagine your shop-floor data animated. Even better, the "animated pie" class was derived from the "piechart" object in under a week -- and that includes drawing all the buttons!

Experience

You can depend on my experience and ability. I have been an RS/1 consultant for over two years; before that I was part of the Domain Solutions RS/1 Core Engineering Team for six years; I was the lead engineer for the 4.4 release of the IPC package and designed the 5.0 RPC packages. The last work I did was to architect the client/server aspect of RS/1 for Windows. Perhaps you've seen me at the BBN User Group Meetings -- I've given presentations on the BBN/IPC and BBN/RPC packages, along with presentations on the other connectivity packages in RS/1, like HLI/CLI, Callable, and VMS$CALL_SHARABLE.

...Other Contracting

Naturally, I do all kinds of RS/1 and RPL contracting; no job is too big or too small. Perhaps you've got some legacy code that needs to be updated and are short on staff; perhaps you've got great statisticians but not enough programmers. Whatever the reason, I can help YOU.

Contact Domain Manufacturing Directly

RS/1 and RS/Client are products of Domain Manufacturing. You can contact them at www.domaincorp.com. Domain Manufacturing is the new name that BBN Software Products took when it was spun off of BBN (which is now part of GTE).

Want to know more?

Please contact me:

Peter D. Smith 11227 NE 109th Lane, Suite L302, Kirkland, WA 98033, (425) 576-8350
rsclient@aol.com