Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV
From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:04:43 GMT
Message-ID: <LUTeg.356$ap3.192_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
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> In highschool when I learned Pascal (I think it was Turbo Pascal on CP/M) in
> a camp, some colleagues learned DBase. I don't know the version number or
> the OS. I remember one from my class modified the boot floppies to display a
> message directed to the instructor of the DBase class (a pretty student
> girl).
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:04:43 GMT
Message-ID: <LUTeg.356$ap3.192_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
x wrote:
> "Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message
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>> My poison was Clipper Summer 87 and then 5.01 from Nantucket (the 2 gold >> releases). When Foxpro came out it was seen more as a clone of the >> dBase user environment while Clipper was a *woo hoo* compiler (well sort >> of)! I ended up using Foxpro on SCO for an app that lasted for 15 years >> before it was retired. It was fast and quite reliable.
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>> When M$ bought FoxPro and Nantucket went off with VO - soon followed by >> CA slurping Nantucket up, the future was writ large on the wall.
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> In highschool when I learned Pascal (I think it was Turbo Pascal on CP/M) in
> a camp, some colleagues learned DBase. I don't know the version number or
> the OS. I remember one from my class modified the boot floppies to display a
> message directed to the instructor of the DBase class (a pretty student
> girl).
Prolly dBase III+ - this was the version that made the big spondulaks for AT.
> Lots of FoxPro for DOS accounting/inventory applications are still in use
> here in Novelia. Clipper 5.01 ones also.
Must be rare now though - and running in DOS Compatibility mode I guess.
> What I did not liked about FoxPro, were the errors I've kept stumbling on.
> I'm born on 13, what can I say . :-)
Cheers, Frank. Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 11:04:43 CEST