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SDS Version 4 Substantially Complete Interim Program for Prototype to
Version 4 SDS Substantially Complete 031208
Version History SDS

0605 -
0605 -    ..
0606 - Summary/Objective
0607 -
060701 - Follow up ref SDS 23 0000.
060702 -
060703 - Work yesterday reports improvements to the Subject Index for applying
060704 - organic structure to create and use multiple views that make finding
060705 - information fast and easy. ref SDS 23 PPTW  This improves performance
060706 - reported on 010916. ref SDS 7 0001
060708 -  ..
060709 - With completion of work yesterday, SDS has been substantially changed
060710 - from the version 3 program in use since about 1990.  As a result, will
060711 - begin identifying the program going forward as version 4.
060713 -  ..
060714 - History of SDS versions is reported in the record on 000723.
060715 - ref SDS 4 0001
060716 -
060717 -        Idea formation on using computers
060718 -        to improve management productivity
060719 -        began in 1983................................. ref SDS 4 0008
060721 -         ..
060722 -        Version 1 beginning in 1985 evolved
060723 -        computer methods to integrate time
060724 -        and information with a system of
060725 -        citations common to legal practice
060726 -        for managing people, documents,
060727 -        schedules, diary and organic structure
060728 -        that correlates storage on a computer
060729 -        and accounting practices for common
060730 -        organization of context that aids
060731 -        human memory.................................. ref SDS 4 H56G
060733 -         ..
060734 -        Version 2 completely re-wrote the 1st
060735 -        version in 1987 to formulate a workable
060736 -        design for the plan, perform, report
060737 -        intelligence cycle, and to develop a
060738 -        system of line numbering that enabled
060739 -        flexible structures in a common format
060740 -        that integrates requirements for keeping
060741 -        records in a Schedule and Diary system
060742 -        with contacts, organic structure and
060743 -        computer disk management; version 2 was
060744 -        tested on the Broadwater Dam project
060745 -        beginning in August 1988...................... ref SDS 4 KW78
060747 -         ..
060748 -        Version 3 re-wrote SDS for the 3rd time
060749 -        in 1989 and 1990 using experience on
060750 -        the Broadwater Dam project to create
060751 -        new designs for the Schedule, Diary,
060752 -        SDS records, and reports; version 3
060753 -        had a compiler that enabled menus and
060754 -        the mouse for better user interface;
060755 -        increased speed using compiled code led
060756 -        to new designs for flexible data structures
060757 -        that implement vertical forms to create
060758 -        links that automate management requirements
060759 -        for an audit trail............................ ref SDS 4 JR7W
060760 -
060762 -  ..
060763 - Version 4 Scope
060764 -
060765 - Since 000825 about 55 major changes have been made to the SDS program.
060766 - ref SDS 6 0001  A complete list of improvements the past few months
060767 - is also show in the record on 000824. ref SDS 6 TG8K
060769 -  ..
060770 - Based on this history, the main improvements to version 3 that are in
060771 - version 4 dating back to 1997 seem to be....
060772 -
060773 -    1.  Action item system.
060774 -
060775 -        Concepts, planning and initial system reported on 960322.
060776 -        ref SDS 1 7749  Most recent work was on 031121. ref SDS 20
060777 -        0001
060779 -         ..
060780 -    2.  Integrate commands make good management fast and easy to learn
060781 -        and use consistently.
060783 -         ..
060784 -        On 021108 Microsoft announced plans for a future project to
060785 -        integrate computer commands in Windows programs in order to
060786 -        improve productivity. ref SDS 10 EFBE  Integration began in SDS
060787 -        on 990530 by making Enter and double click execute commands
060788 -        intelligently based on situational awareness in the record.
060789 -        ref SDS 3 0001  Further integration was accomplished on 000821.
060790 -        ref SDS 5 0G6N  More recently, on 031203 the F2 save command
060791 -        integrated about 30 tasks over the past few years that perform
060792 -        100Ks of steps for the user by pressing a single key.
060793 -        ref SDS 22 JV8G
060795 -         ..
060796 -    3.  Internet support makes distributing and using intelligence fast
060797 -        and easy, goals and plans described on 971021. ref SDS 2 3636
060799 -         ..
060800 -    4.  Links based on explicit anchors provide uniform addressability
060801 -        so others can create a connected record without learning and
060802 -        using SDS.
060804 -         ..
060805 -        Changes to SDS format required major task over several weeks of
060806 -        concentrated effort and many more months of periodic work to
060807 -        examine and update thousands of SDS records over a 15 year
060808 -        period.
060810 -         ..
060811 -    5.  Addressability for people using SDS records on the Internet
060812 -        expanded using explicit links, reported on 020320. ref SDS 8
060813 -        0001
060815 -         ..
060816 -    6.  Doc Log improved uniform system for issued and received
060817 -        documents, 021013. ref SDS 9 0001
060819 -         ..
060820 -    7.  Memory expanded using various designs for virtual memory by
060821 -        segmenting files, e.g., on 030810, ref SDS 13 0001, and using
060822 -        the Windows Start command; required re-writing about 40% of the
060823 -        SDS code, begun on 030202, ref SDS 11 0001, continued on
060824 -        030902, ref SDS 15 0001, and completed yesterday on 031207.
060825 -        ref SDS 23 0001
060827 -         ..
060828 -    8.  Confidentiality provided range of choices to suppress parts of
060829 -        a record or an entire record, most recently on 031017.
060830 -        ref SDS 16 0001
060832 -         ..
060833 -    9.  Format checking and correction to make learning and using
060834 -        Knowledge Space fast and easy, reported 031128. ref SDS 21 6R6F
060836 -         ..
060837 -   10.  Document analysis fast and easy to set up in SDS records,
060838 -        improved on 031109. ref SDS 19 0001
060840 -         ..
060841 -   11.  Foundational Documents listed automatically in SDS References
060842 -        to make understanding good management fast and easy, reported
060843 -        on 030429. ref SDS 12 0001
060845 -         ..
060846 -   12.  References maintained in sync with citations to avoid
060847 -        profiloration that otherwise burdens SDS data bases and slows
060848 -        performance, developed on 031107. ref SDS 18 0001
060850 -         ..
060851 -   13.  Other programs open any file by pressing Enter or double
060852 -        clicking, developed on 031020. ref SDS 17 0001
060854 -         ..
060855 -   14.  Context managment in Subject Index to navigate through
060856 -        Knowledge Space and replicate data strucutres so that creating
060857 -        multiple views to increase understanding and to find
060858 -        information is fast and easy, developed on 030816. ref SDS 14
060859 -        O44L
060861 -         ..
060862 -        Most recent improvement was on 031207. ref SDS 23 0001
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