>>>One of the "it almost happened but didn't moments" was in the late 1980's when Borland was seriously looking at a Turbo dBase to complement their Turbo product line. But Phil K just didn't think there was enough justification - he though client-server would have more emphasis.
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>>Turbo Pascal's compiler was fantastic. Turbo Dbase would be interesting...
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>Turbo Pascal and Turbo C were outstanding products. Microsoft C might have had a few more optimization tricks up its sleeve, but Turbo C was overall a better crafted product.
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>By late 1989 the PC world had 2 stellar five star products - Turbo C and FoxPro 1.0. As much as I love SQL Server, I would say those 2 products , with respect to their era, were the greatest software releases we've seen.

I used Foxpro 1.0 once and it was very very slow. After your words I think it might be about low system resources. After first try, I returned to Foxbase. Than bought Foxpro 2.5. Foxpro 2.5 also was a disaster until with an accident run it a 4 MB ram pc. It was fantastic. Everyone was shocked with 32 bit Foxpro. My clipper developer friends too. They were using clipper just because of it's .EXE compiler, I wasn't. Because Foxbase had an IDE and very faster than Clipper.

Old days was very easy. I was at a training about Azure at Microsoft today. It's very complex. I just thougt Azure as a server center at internet... :(