>But then FoxPro 1.0 came it, and that changed everything.

I was thoroughly un-impressed with FoxPro 1.0. I was more impressed with 2.x. And FoxPro for Windows 2.6 was amazing, but these also evolved on my getting-faster-over-time computers.

When FoxPro 1.0 came out I had a very slow machine. Later on I got faster and faster machines and the things FoxPro did were not so bad on the faster machines, but on the slower ones it was faster for me to go back to mfoxplus and use that.

I wrote many apps in Multi-user FoxBASE+. It served as a baseline for how to efficiently write DOS-based apps. I had interests in assembly programming and C, and I always went back to FoxBASE+ as my goto in how to think about approaching various problems. I even wrote an assembly app called MicroLan (for Micro Language), which was a cross between Norton's Batch Enhancer, and FoxBASE+. It had the ability to interact very quick with some nice effects for presentations / demos. I used them in concert with FoxBASE+ apps back then.

Loved it. Sometimes I miss those days.

>I also remember reading the rumors in 1988 that Borland was thinking about a Turbo dBase. I don't know if we'll ever hear the actual story, but from what I recall, Borland's internal attempts couldn't quite match Fox' performance, and there were rumblings that Philippe Kahn just wasn't as hot on the idea as he was on other tools.

The WordPerfect Corporation made a utility called DataPerfect that was amazing. You created data relationships using commonly understood things by everyday people. I had a friend who knew nothing about developer, but designed some really complex databases that way. I've used that tool as a model for how to create things as well.