SATURN Technical Information
SATURN has historically been run on a wide range of platforms including
mainframe computers, workstations and micros. However, by far the
majority of users now run pc versions of SATURN under Windows 95/98
or Windows NT, 2000 and XP.
SATURN is available in a 32-bit version which runs under “pure”
Windows 95, 98 and NT, 2000 and XP. By contrast versions of SATURN
prior to 10.3 used 16-bit compilers which ran under DOS (and thus
a DOS-box within Windows). Note that the 16-bit version is not suitable
for Windows NT, 2000 or XP.
SATURN does not require a particularly high-spec pc to run (although
clearly for large networks number-crunching speed becomes an issue
and large-memory high-speed machines are recommended). A typical lower-range
specification for a system to run SATURN 10.7 would include:
For PC versions executable code is supplied complete with a full set of complementary batch files for all modules plus the SATWIN front-end which provides a standardised Windows interface.