>>There was talk of porting VFP to 64 bit by the Fox development team many years ago, and it was basically abandoned as impossible without a full re-write.
Chen, working in his spare time in China, has set himself the task of a 64-bit version of VFP and has released an alpha that mostly works. The IDE does most things, some work needed for 64-bit ODBC and a few other issues I forget. He's also ironed out some Windows compatibility issues and 6 known bugs in the 32-bit version in the rest of his spare time.
"... 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
