>>>>>Just can believe I've started with this :)
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.masswerk.at/google60/
>>>>
>>>>My first experience with computers was in 1959, when I was five years old. I played with a lot of those punch cards, but they didn't have the words Google written on them, instead it was IBM.
>>>>
>>>>The first hard drive they got where my father worked, was 10MB, at the size of a normal household washing machine.
>>>
>>>My first PC had a 10MB hard drive -- it took dBASE II about 45 minutes to reindex a 10,000-record table.
>>>Then I discovered that Foxbase could build the same index in about 15 seconds....
>>>And the rest is history!
>>>
>>>-m.
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>>Our dBase II system took 16 hours to index 30,000 records. Fox Pro blew dBase away! :)
>
>I agree. I started working for a company that had a monthly dbase III report that took almost 24 hours to run (if it succeeded). I had seen ads for FoxBase+ and gave it a try. Minor tweeking and the report ran in less than 5 minutes.

Back in the 80s, I worked for a company that used SBT accounting (written is dbase III). Their end of month processing would tie up a computer for 20 hours. I wrote a add-on that would distribute the processes over additional computers (Multi-computer Parallel Processing). And then converted the code to Foxpro 1.0. The entire task was reduced to 1.5 hours.