>At Jeb's you can read: "...he developed a file management program called JPLDIS written in FORTRAN, running in a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe ... JPLDIS was the precursor of dBASE, that runs in CP/M microcomputers ... Latter with Wayne Ratliff, Jeb Long translated..."
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>At Wayne's you can read: "He originally wrote a database program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Passadena, California. He called it Vulcan ... and then met up with George Tate and others and Ashton-Tate was born."
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>Are JPLDIS and Vulcan the same thing with 2 different names? Jeb and Wayne developed that/those program(s) together? Jeb and Wayne joined George Tate to form Ashton-Tate?

Ratliff based Vulcan on JPLDIS.

Tamar