a problem with VFP3 was that it only ran on Windows and Windows, prior to Win 95, was an unstable client environment to say the least.Which was why VFP3 ran on Win95. ;-) VFP3 was a 32-bit product that was able to kludge back to Windows 3.1.
When Win95 was released, the first 32-bit vertical market data apps were written in VFP. Products like VB didn't get 32-bit until some time later.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
