Digital Technical Journal

This issue of the Digital Technical Journal, published in February 1988, is dedicated to software productivity tools used at Digital Equipment Corporation. It includes technical papers covering a wide range of tools and development environments, such as the VAX/VMS software development environment, the Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE), VAX SCAN for text processing, VAX Ada features, graphics standards (VAX GKS and VAX PHIGS), the VAX RALLY application generator, VTX and VALU for distributed applications, and the VAX NOTES conferencing system. Each paper details design decisions, implementation strategies, and productivity benefits of these tools. Additionally, it contains articles on measuring software productivity and usability engineering practices used to improve software design and project management within Digital.