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Re:Exploring Borland DBase IV for DOS (2020) by nybblesio on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:19AM (#26344314)
dBASE was a product of Ashton-Tate, not Borland. [1] Odd sidebar: Ashton-Tate had a BBS accessible via a toll-free (800) number for many years and it was extremely popular. I shudder at the thought of their monthly phone bill.

I built several systems using dBASE III and Clipper. Ah, the Summer of 87. [2]

I know I'm old and washed up when I wish I could time travel back to this era. I miss it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-Tate

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_(programming_language)

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Re:Exploring Borland DBase IV for DOS (2020) by tibbydudeza on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:40PM (#26345407)
When a program could be written and be useable within hours.

Now it takes me days to install VM's and butchered/forked SDK's and cloud connectors and incant the various sacred undocumented mantras before I can actually open VSCode and start coding.

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