User Tools
The story of *NRRECS begins in 1975. Ken Gregory left IT to become the Associate Registrar, building the team to automate the registration systems. The team, which included Monty Kilian and Tom Luker, created the NR- commands in TP. Linda Little (later Hardwick), Programmer Assistant in the Registrar's office, was part of the team. In 1979, after four years in the Registrar's Officer, Ken Gregory returned to Data Processing and joined the Systems Staff. Dave Stones succeeded him as the team leader for student records computing. With new funding, the group was called the MAP (Model Admissions Program) team, with analysts Tom Luker, Monte Kilian brought in from Data Processing, and John Camden, who had left UT for a time, rehired. Trainees Dan Augustine and Tommy Kern joined, to build the Admissions side of the operation.
In 1982 While Robby Simpson made the decision that all new development should be done in the newly released Natural 1.2, Dave Stones and Tom Luker were skeptical of the power of the language and its suitability for complex applications, given that Natural 1.2 didn't provide reusable, callable infrastructure of subprograms and external subroutines. The user interface for *NRRECS had been developed under the TP system, in COBOL, for the TOTAL database. It was converted to use Complete maps, and ADAMINTs for access to ADABAS. The batch processing remained COBOL. Dan and Tom developed the user interface *ADM for the new admissions system in NATURAL, but the batch processing was largely COBOL.
*NRRECS was converted to Natural in the late 1980's when Tom was convinced that code developed in Natural 2.1 would be maintainable.
