Softbench

HP Softbench was one of the first plug-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool based on the UNIX operating system, UNIX tools and the X Window System.

The main ideas were:

  • Tools and data can reside on many different systems across the network
  • Tool communication using a Broadcast Message Server
  • Common user interface
  • Integrated help facility
  • Tool Slots
  • Encapsulator: tool for encapsulate any CASE tool into a Tool Slot if it supports standard I/O.

History

SoftBench was released in 1989 and presented in the June 1990 HP Journal.[1] It was an early adoption of some of the IDE ideas that are common today in well known IDEs like Eclipse.

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gollark: Any other ideas? Or ideas about causes for some of the vaguer ones?
gollark: I can see many possibilities:- someone somehow revoked their 10/10 one- LyricLy decided that the 10/10 one was insincere in some way- LyricLy reassigned it 11/10 or something ridiculous- LyricLy marked it down for some reason (new better one?)- LyricLy accidentally deleted one of the 10/10 ones- LyricLy deleted one of them because it criticized his rule- marking system reevaluated
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gollark: What? What happened?

References

  1. Cagan, Martin R. (June 1990). "The HP SoftBench Environment: An Architecture for a New Generation of Software Tools". Hewlett-Packard Journal. 41 (3): 36–47.
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