Hi, Gorgaras.
>Do you really not think that DOS Foxpro is really still at the core of VFP.

Of course there must be some lines of code, but I think it's mostly rewriten by now.

>I'm sure that rushmore is a black box - who would touch something so complex.

They surely touched many things in Rushmore once they added DBCs, events, etc. And judging for the way it permeated other MS database products, it's way beyond a black-box. I think it's a fairly clever and documented concept.

>And if you think of it, the way forms and classes are stored is exactly the way FRX were stored in Foxpro Dos (ie: in a database file).

Almost anything in VFP is stored in some form of DBF file. That doesn't mean they are *exactly stored*. Structures are quite different, although they share some basic criteria.

>Nothing is as fast as Foxpro DOS - every version of Fox since has gotten slower on the same hardware - it's just that we kept getting bigger hardware.

It all depends regarding what. UI was much faster (and much limited, also) in DOS, because text rendering was a lot faster than graphic rendering on Windows. A lot of things were speed-improved, mostly database operations, and in VFP 8.0, object instantiation is blazingly fast.

Of course, more features impact on a product. For many basic things, FoxBase was faster than anything, and I fitted in a single diskette (the help was a single screen!). But of course, later version are feature-richer. ;-)

>BTW, is VFP 8 only available for W2K and XP - I want to run it on 98.

The Development environment is limited to those platforms. Runtimes are *supported* from Win98 SE and up, except NT. I highlight *supported* because I made some test and it actually runs, although you're on your own if you do it.

Regards,