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Funnily enough, I think one the original IBM PC killer apps was exactly that - dBase III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase
by ableal 4y ago
Funnily enough, I think one the original IBM PC killer apps was exactly that - dBase III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase
MS Access was the usurper of dBase's crown. And then Excel took over ...
- jaclaz 4y agoI would mention also (although it didn't have much success in the end) the Borland database, Paradox for Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_(database) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_(database) I am not at all a programmer, but I remember that at least in early version(s) MS Access (circa 1994, Windows 3.1 times) was well behind Paradox in usability.