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25/11/2001 22:21:12
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00583845
Message ID:
00585609
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>>How about. . . for the same reasons that people (used to) like to run VFP, and FP before that, on MAC.
>
>What reason is that? I am going to guess at the answer, but feel free to supply your own. :-)
>
>FoxPro ran on the Mac OS had a decent market share. 20%? And back in the bad old days we didn't have a browser/http/xml/soap which allows computers of different types to communicate, so you had to port the executable to another OS.

This all hinges on a browser. Borwsers still have a way to go yet before they are truly useful in a wide variety of situations.
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