[pumplekin]

My memories of Ashton-Tate are weirdly the non-dbase products, mostly the ones the acquired.

I specifically remember Multimate, the Word Processor, and Framework, the "office suite" I guess.

But dbase was 90%+ of what Ashton-Tate did so the success of that made of broke the company.

[jhbadger]

Yes, I remember Multimate -- it had a very weird user interface but that was because it was designed to be similar to the dedicated Wang word processors of the late 1970s/early 1980s. When I was working in a university library in the 1980s the staff all used Multimate because they had recently gotten PCs to replace their Wang word processors and wanted something familiar.

[pkphilip]

Really interesting to see that "Framework" software download is 38MB while the manual is 119MB!

https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10

[Pamar]

Framework!!!

[reaperducer]

I loved Framework. The ultimate DOS shell, and so very very much more.

All the capability of Mac OS, but with the speed and hotkeys of a department store POS system. I don't know if it had a graphic component, because I ran it on an IBM XT with an MDA display.

I tried to find Framework disks online a few years ago so I could relive it under DOSBox, but came up empty.

[Andys]

https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10