Turnip
Turnip is a "toy" application written to demonstrate ideas as part of a basic research effort. Other than that, it has no practical use. But we fully expect some descendant to have profound application in engineering and managing the Virtual Enterprise.
You will need a Macintosh to run this program, but you probably already know that. There are four versions of Turnip: Turnip 1 and 2 differ in how many concepts are captured in the features used.
Turnip 1 uses one feature., and is somewhat inappropriately employed in these docs to show a tactical example. Turnip 2 uses two concepts per feature and is used to show a more strategic situation. For your convenience, each of these has two versions, depending on the type of Mac you may have. The PPC suffix indicates use on a PowerMac only, while the 68K denotes the targeting for the older, non PowerMacs.
The purpose of the program is to efficiently focus attention on some technical needs which must be addressed for strategic use of the metrics, in Turnip 2. In order to introduce that, we describe a simpler, tactical use, via Turnip 1. and to set up that, we describe an example in very brief terms.
The name has no major significance. Jeff Weeks wrote Turnip for us, and he has a significant project called SnapPea available from the University of Minnesota's Geometry Center. SnapPea has some relevance to the issues we are researching, and we liked the concept of an idea garden, but Turnip's purpose is to look at root technologies. Dumb, I know.
