dBASE was a product of Ashton-Tate, not Borland. [1] Odd sidebar: Ashton-Tate had a BBS accessible via a toll-free (800) number for many years and it was extremely popular. I shudder at the thought of their monthly phone bill.
I built several systems using dBASE III and Clipper. Ah, the Summer of 87. [2]
I know I'm old and washed up when I wish I could time travel back to this era. I miss it.
When a program could be written and be useable within hours.
Now it takes me days to install VM's and butchered/forked SDK's and cloud connectors and incant the various sacred undocumented mantras before I can actually open VSCode and start coding.
Now it takes me days to install VM's and butchered/forked SDK's and cloud connectors and incant the various sacred undocumented mantras before I can actually open VSCode and start coding.