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Written on April 13th, 2026 by Tech Ads
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7(PUIROVA20
The application generator and 4GL with transparent
distributed processing facilities.
Amazing object-oriented
application building capabilities
The SuperNova application generator represents a new
approach to software development. Until now, software
tools have helped us with some aspects of the building
process. SuperNova goes all the way.
SuperNova allows you to paint the complete user
interface and describe the database in full detail.
SuperNova allows you to create the application
logic with a combination of painting and zooming into
the application details. The complete development can
be completed by this process without any need for
procedural programming.
Works with your existing database
or with flat files
SuperNova applications can run with several industry
standard database packages. SuperNova interfaces to
these database packages with no modification to the
application. Changing the database type is possible
without any change to the application itself — the
ultimate in database independence.
SuperNova can work with your existing database, including Informix,
Oracle and flat ASCII files. (Ingres and Sybase interface available soon).
An excellent user interface
SuperNova has a remarkably sophisticated user interface. SuperNova is
easy to use for the creation of window-oriented systems, even on plain
CRTs! The use of mouse, color and scroll bars is also available on the Sun
workstation, X-windows and pc’s.
Ultimate portability
SuperNova applications can be run on other hardware environments or
operating systems without modification. The complete user interface
updates itself automatically to the target environment.
A powerful library
SuperNova is also available as a program library interface, allowing you to
create your own programs using a procedural language such as C, while
using SuperNova to create the user interface. Every SuperNova command
is available through the library interface, making huge data processing jobs,
large simulation models and realtime applications possible.
Referential integrity and transaction control
SuperNova has automatic referential integrity features built in at the level
of its data dictionary. Transaction processing is available on multi database
transactions.
UNIX™, AIX™, NOVA™, ORACLE™, UNIFY™, INFORMIX™, XENIX™,
and MS-DOS™, APPLE™, VAX/VMS™, and ULTRIX™, and SUN™ are
trademarks of AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM, Four Seasons Software Inc., Oracle
Corp., Unify Corp., Informix Software Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer Inc.,
Digital Equipment Corp., and Sun Microsystems Inc. respectively.
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Full distributed processing facilities
SuperNova developed applications can run in a distributed mode on a
network consisting of various system types. Database tables and data
processing functions may be distributed. In this mode, the complete network
is available as one virtual computer system.
SuperNova is available now
All these features are not a future ideal picture but the reality today. Nova
is available now on a large number of Unix systems, on Xenix, Aix, Ultrix
and others. It is available on VAX-VMS and MS-DOS.
What SuperNova does for you
SuperNova enables you to diminish your backlog of software development.
The increase in productivity, reduction in maintenance costs, the ultimate
portability and the low cost, represents a 100% return of your investment
within the development of a single application. Your applications look better,
and give the application builder the power of using windows, color and
mouse without getting involved with the tedious details.
SuperNova brings you the features you always
dreamed of but did not expect now.
Four Seasons Software
120 Wood Ave South
Iselin, NJ 08830
Phone: (908)-321-1650
Fax: (908)-287-4929
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‘The next step is…’
SuperNova was a fourth generation programming language, development environment, and runtime primarily used to interface with various enterprise databases and datastores. Cross platform, it supported various flavours of Unix, VAX-MAS, and MS-DOS.
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