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by keernan 44 days ago
I started with dBase but quickly moved to foxbase which was much faster. Foxbase was renamed FoxPro when DOS moved to Windows and soon thereafter Microsoft purchased FoxPro. Since FoxPro was a dBase derivative, there were high quality conversion interfaces between Access and FoxPro (and all dBase dialects).

Aside: I was such a fan of Foxbase that the very day Microsoft's acquisition was announced (circa ~1992), I invested $10,000 in Microsoft. I sold maybe 10 years later for $100,000. Stupid Stupid Stupid.