HSPD Hardware and software requirements:

The HSPD is an ASCII text based DBMS that was constructed using
"dBASE III PLUS", a popular "off the shelf" software package that
was developed by Ashton-Tate, Inc. (Torrance, CA).  The system is
designed to operate on a microcomputer running under the "MS-DOS"
system.  The HSPD program application is compiled in Clipper
(Nantucket Corp.), which enables it to operate on a microcomputer
without a resident version of the dBASE software.  However, as a
consequence of the use of this program structure, the application
user is unable to annotate or implement any other interactive
modifications of the database structure in the compiled Clipper
version of the HSPD.  

The minimum configuration for operating the system requires DOS
version 2.0 (or newer), 512K of RAM (random access memory), and
two 360K disk drives.  Although the system will operate without
one, a hard disk drive is recommended to facilitate practical use
of the system.  For this research, the HSPD was installed on an
IBM-AT compatible (DOS 3.1) with 1024K of RAM, a 20meg hard disk,
and two (1.2meg and 360K) disk drives.

<dfile13>   HSPD
<dfile15>   HSPD: Objectives