CASIO BASIC

Casio Basic is a programming language which is the debugging machine is the calculator itself. You can write a program in the calculator and execute it and thus make your program portable. This language is much more simpler compared to the programming language used in FX603P.  Program is still a program. The principle is just the same, but the syntax is simpler.

Currently we have FX7400G, FX9850G, ALGEBRA FX, FX5800P, and FX9860G which is the popular model used the basic language. As an alternative for advance user, model like ALGEBRAFX and FX9860G was provided with Software Development Kit which allow user to build software in C/C++ language to their machine.  Another alternative is the MLC The Multi-Platform Language for Calculators. But MLC is totally build to program a games.

The syntax used between graphic model and programmable model may differs, but not to much. Between the graphic models also the syntax is same but the format is diffrent and thus you cannot transfer between some model using 3 pin cable. However model such 7400G and 9860G the format is same and can be connect between each other.

EXAMPLE: KIBLAT BEARING

21.25156->A
A->W
Prog “P9”
W->A
39.49291->L
L->W
Prog “P9”
W->L
“LAT(N)DMS”?->B
B->W
Prog “P9”
W->B
“LONG(E)DMS”?->M
M->W
Prog “P9”
W->M
sin(M-L/((cos(B)*tan(A))-(sin(B)*cos(M-L)))->T
tan^-1 (T)->T
If B>A:Then 180-T->T:Else 360-T->T:IfEnd
“BEARING KIBLAT”:T>DMS_

SDR MAPPING

SDR Mapping and Design software provides a complete solution for the surveyor and civil engineer. Individual modules integrate around one common database and graphical interface, making it cost effective, quick to learn and easy to use. Every day, this comprehensive software system is used worldwide in applications such as:

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• Land subdivision
• Cadastral surveying
• Mining and earthworks
• Mapping
• Highway design
• Road reconstruction
• Monitoring surveys
• Site surveys
• GPS survey processing
• Quality assurance

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Development by software specialists, and experienced surveyors and engineers with close links to users, has enabled continual enhancement of the system since first release in 1984. After a decade of development SDR Mapping and Design is very reliable, meeting a wide range of requirements and keeping pace with advances in computer and survey technology.

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SDR Mapping and Design’s ease of use enables you to be more productive from day one, yet it is one of the most sophisticated and powerful survey and engineering software systems available. SDR Mapping and Design has the solution to all of your surveying and engineering tasks.

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This software is still practical in use until now. It was discontinued may b because the original team was not together now. Infact the company itself was bought by other company. Below is 2 resource that I think shows clear to us why this software was discontinued. 

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“Trimble also made headway into new markets in 1990 by acquiring a New Zealand company, Datacom Software Research Ltd., enabling Trimble to offer new survey and mapping software products.” (Trimble Web page)
“I am a Director of Eliot Sinclair & Partners Ltd, a Consulting Engineering and Surveying Company which in 1987 tendered for providing hydrographic services to the local Port of Lyttelton. To this end, we contracted Datacom Software Research Ltd to write a navigation and logging program utilising a Geodimeter 440 and Navitronic Echo Sounder. This software evolved to become Trimble’s ‘HYDROpro’.” (http://www.hydro-international.com/issues/articles/id6-Hydro.html)

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The old version of HydroPro Processing module is exactly the same as SDR mapping software. The only diffrent is just for the hydro they used the term ‘channel’ instead of ‘route’

But at the beginning, I have read an article before that says Datacom bought the source code from the Foresoft company which later the source code become SDRMAP.

The SDR program was built for SOKKIA by Datacom then when it was acquired by trimble how sokkia continuing the software develoment in related to SDR?

Thus..nothing they have. SDR was discontinued. Sokkia develop their own Map Vista and so on.