PC Magazine, v4(1)

~1 minute read

08 Jan 1985

News In Brief

Stop Playing Around...

Infocom, the text-adventure game maker, has created its first business software product — a database system called Cornerstone. Like Infocom's highly successful science ficiton and mystery interactive-fiction software, its database manager is designed to make nonprogrammers feel comfortable with computers.

Cornerstone's help and options keys are always available to trigger context-sensitive explanations that are based on the structure of the database you have created. The program's ease of use doesn't reduce its range of features. For example, you can modify your database at any time.

An automatic wraparound feature allows data of any size to fit into a field without requiring you to specify a maximum length in advance. The sorting process lets you use English-language commands, such as AFTER JULY 1980 or BEFORE YESTERDAY or BEATLES... KINKS INCLUSIVE.

Cornerstone requires at least 256K and DOS 2.0 or later. Its list price will be $495 when available from this Cambridge, Mass., company on January 31, 1984.

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PC Magazine
08 Jan 1985

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