>>>I always think fondly of major releases of SQL Server, but that first release of FoxPro 1.0 was so much more - something you see once in a lifetime.
>>
>>Yes, indeed.
>>
>>I can look back at a few earlier milestones:
>>
>>IBM 360 - first mainframe to use integrated circuits and the "standard interface" (we take things like USB, HDMI, etc. for granted but there was chaos with peripheral interfaces before the IBM 360 came along)
>>Trivia question - does anyone know what the RS in RS232 means?
>>
>>TRS 80 - it couldn't do much but it blew me away and you knew that it was just a matter of time....
>>
>>IBM PC - I was running the system department of a brokerage house on Wall Street on that fateful day in 1982 when the announcement came and you could actually feel the excitement on the street.
>>
>>DBase II- I took one look at it and that was the end of mainframes for me.
>
>I believe RS is Recommended Standard... Kind of like ISO but earlier.
Correct!