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by gavinmckenzie 1243 days ago
Takes me back to the days of dBase, Clipper, and my favourite FoxPro which was acquired by Microsoft and continued to exist in the 90s. Access definitely destroyed the market for these other products by combining aspects of Visual Basic and database tech.
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FoxPro on the Mac was wonderful. I learned SQL wrangling with analytics on it -- there weren't all the options we have today.