>Hi Pete,
>
>>Hi Tom,
>>You might want to delve into the Macintosh side a little deeper...
>
>Do you have some dates and facts about Mac's versions of Fox (Base, Pro, Visual) you could give us, in order they could be added to the FoxPro timeline?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fernando
Fernando;
This might be of interest to you in your efforts to gather information about the history of "The Fox"!
FOXPRO CHRONOLOGY (Pre-MS) : (thanks to Dave Fulton)
The actual chronology of Fox Software's products prior to the acquisition by Microsoft was:
FoxBase 1984 MSDOS
This was a dBASE II work-alike
Multi-User FoxBase 1985 MSDOS & UNIX
Also a dBASE II work-alike but with primitive multi-user features
FoxBASE+ 1986 MSDOS
A dBASE III Plus work-alike that (together with a celebrated lawsuit)
helped put Fox Software on the map.
FoxBASE+/Mac 1987 Macintosh
This first Macintosh product of Fox Software's captured a majority
the Mac database market within a few months of its release.
It could be viewed as an initial design study for the first MSDOS
version of FoxPro in 1989-90.
FoxPro 1989 MSDOS
This product supported a superset of the dBASE IV language but
an entirely new interface most similar to that of FoxBASE+/Mac.
This interface has persisted both in the character-oriented MSDOS
world and, in graphic form, in both the present-day Windows and
Macintosh products.
FoxPro 2.0 1991 MSDOS
This version of FoxPro should be mentioned separately from the
1989 version because it is the first one that incorporated SQL and
the Rushmore Technology. The first versions of FoxPro basically
incorporated the FoxBASE+ engine under the hood and it wasn't
until FoxPro 2.0 that the full flowering of Fox's reputation for
stellar performance occurred.
It might be noted in passing that FoxPro for Windows was essentially complete at the time of Fox's acquisition by Microsoft in June of 1992 and was released a few months later.
Source of the above information:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~angus/foxpro/foxfaq1.htmlTom
