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My memories of Ashton-Tate are weirdly the non-dbase products, mostly the ones the acquired. I specifically remember Multimate, the Word Processor, and Framewo
by pumplekin 2y ago
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 2y agoYes, 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.
- Pamar 2y agoFramework!!!
- reaperducer 2y agoI 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 2y agohttps://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10 https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10
- pkphilip 2y agoReally interesting to see that "Framework" software download is 38MB while the manual is 119MB! https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10 https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/10