Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!usc!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!cy From: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: dBASE IV - is this for real? Message-ID: <140@dbase.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 89 17:32:57 GMT References: <9383@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <661@levels.sait.edu.au> Reply-To: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif. Lines: 14 In article <661@levels.sait.edu.au> marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes: >Furthermore, having spoken to both Ashton and Tate some years ago while I >was developing a moderately large system, I am very dissatisfied with their >attitude. I'm sorry that you were dissatisfied after speaking to both Ashton and Tate, but (I can't resist) while George Tate was a real person, Ashton is a large green macaw (now at Claris, BTW)... The name of the other original founder is Hal Lashlee. --Cy-- "Polly want a .PRG! BRAAAAACK!"