They had a library for access dbase files for Turbo Pascal too. I adviced to a friend of mine (I never used it, just adviced because of it's indeks, seek ... functions) months later him said me that "Why you adviced that toolbox me? That's terrible with large .dbf files. I'm trouble bad with it". That's right, I forgot about tools like Topaz that offered very similar functionality.
That period of time (1987-1989, and even into the early 90's) was an exciting time for developers who were building LOB applications on PCs....you had the rise of the xBase compilers, you had tools like Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, the promise of Modula-2 (which never quite caught on in the U.S. the way it did in the U.K.), and then you had that great date in the fall of 1989 when FoxPro 1.0 came out and crushed Ashton-Tate.
Today I spent almost an hour going through old issues of Data Based Advisor and PC Tech Journal. Even with all the growth of tools and platforms and hardware since then, history will point to that period of time as a very significant one.
