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From: bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: DBASE and MAINFRAMES???
Summary: Ashton-Tate never updated dBASEII for AT&T
Message-ID: <165@mdi386.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 11:37:29 GMT
References: <117@mscf.med.upenn.edu> <1989Oct14.184030.4574@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1160@msa3b.UUCP>
Organization: Wells Computer Systems Corp., Levittown, Pa. 19058
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In article <1160@msa3b.UUCP>, kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
> 
> AT&T distributes DBASE III for the AT&T 3B2.  It seems to be the
> "real thing."  You might contact Ashton Tate to see who else has
> ported it.  I have used the 3B version  -- it appeared to be as
> workable as DBASE ever is.
> Kevin Kleinfelter @ Management Science America, Inc (404) 239-2347
> gatech!nanovx!msa3b!kevin

Ashton-Tate never updated dBASEIII for AT&T.. In fact, if you look at
the version there, it is really dBASEII 1/2.  This has a lot missing,
that even was in III, not to mention III+.  Ashton-Tate has consistently
"talked" about releasing a UNIX version, and the only reason they did
the AT&T version was a liberal application of money by AT&T.  However,
when AT&T pulled the plug on the UNIX-PC, they also pulled the plug on
dBASE for UNIX.  We finally moved to Foxbase to get dBASE for UNIX.  At
this point, Foxbase is available on about half a dozen platforms.

bruce
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