📑 The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Survival of dBase | Another Boring Topic
「 Esber then moved on to attacking a new front, stating that the dBase programming language, the language that dBase developers used to create dBase database, was proprietary, and required Ashton-Tate’s permission to use. He was then quoted as referring to the third party companies in the dBase ecosystem as “parasites” 」
This is the most comprehensive history of Ashton-Tate dBASE I've seen, an amazing story of technical achievements and facepalming mismanagement. I didn't know the product is still around and available for sale.
Enfin un ordinateur de musculation.
Le #Kaypro 10, créé par Andy Kay,l' inventeur du voltmètre numérique. En 1982, cette superbe glacière tout en alu de 12 Kg embarquait un bon gros skeudur de 10 Mo sous CP/M. Il était garni de super softs, fournis avec la machine : #dBase, #Wordstar, la suite Perfect.
Du fun pur, mais portable.
On en redemande. #cpm#z80
@categulario HP no era así. Durante la década de los 80s trabajé en el corporativo de un importante grupo industrial aquí en #Jalisco. Todo era #HP. Desde el mainframe, hasta las computadoras personales. Fuertes, resistentes a todo, rápidas, fáciles de actualizar, usar y mantener. Añoro mi #HP150, y especialmente las #Vectra, a las que poníamos de tu a tu con la #HP3000, de la que extraíamos información de #IMAGE para procesarla con nuestros desarrollos en #Clipper y #dBase.
Non so se conoscete Triangular OS per #c64 , progetto carino, un os ad icone però in grafica petscii o giù di lì.
Preferisco il buon vecchio geos ma anche questo non è male, include anche una simil Shell comandi che estende un po' più facilmente la gestione delle periferiche analogamente allo speeddos. #retrocomputing
@xexer@tschak@BlackICEBBS I can just say that I think GEOS really shows the possibilities. Yes, there's no multitasking but I don't consider this a crucial requirement for 8 bit OSes.
For example: I'm using CP/M on my 8-bit #Z80 machine, it provides me with several development environments (#Forth, #C and #Assembler). I have word processing on it (#Wordstar, of all things!). I have #dBase for database stuff if needed, #Qterm for connecting via #WifiModem and even a neat collection of VT100 games. So yes, I think an 8-bit computer without multitasking is a good computer for integrated software in one OS. And the #C64 is no exception from that.