Certainly true. (I'm old enough to remember TRS-80 word processors, only one or two of which were able to handle files larger than memory. SuperScripsit's ability to handle files as large as your floppy disk -- all, what was it, 180K of it? -- seemed amazing!)

Re: FoxPro vs. VS, it's probably quite unfair to suggest that it's in part because FoxPro didn't start its life at Microsoft, but I admit it was the first thing that came to mind...