>lol. I recently talked to a guy who is running an entire winery in Napa Valley with Foxpro Unix on an SCO Xenix box. He said the users are very happy with the system, not so much because of its blocky user interface but because it is "so darn fast and it never ever goes down."
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>The winery guys are still developing new program modules in FP Unix and tweaking performance on existing ones Running this program on a relatively new Pentium machine is terrifyingly fast, the guy said -- it is almost like it reads your thoughts and does things you are thinking it should do before you have time to even type out the first command. And why wouldn't it be fast? After all, FP Unix was originally designed to run fast on a 286 machine with hardly any memory and a slow hard drive.
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>Makes one wonder how much of progress is actually progress.

I know. I had my wife doing the bookkeeping using Quicken on a 286 workstation until somewhere around 2002. I finally upgraded out of shame, fear of spousal abuse, something like that. A friend has a pretty comprehensive app for the garment industry using an offshoot of concurrent dos and brags about how fast it goes. FWIW, they're still using Novell.