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>>>I remember the controversy over the Clipper chip. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago.
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>>Well, 25 years ago, there was a bigger Clipper controversy. Clipper 5.0. What a debacle that was. Most unreliable development software of all time.
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>dBASE IV was a contender, too.
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>Fox's competitors stumbled badly and let Fox take leadership in xBASE.

Yes. I never decided whether that was brilliance by Fox or incompetence by its competitors, but the battle clearly went to Fox.