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From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBASE IV and extended memory
Keywords: dBASE IV
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.214533.11636@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 21:45:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.163132.10805@dbase.A-T.COM> <1991Apr25.134219.28156@dbase.A-T.COM>
Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <1991Apr25.134219.28156@dbase.A-T.COM> jeffmc@dbase.UUCP (Jeff McCrimon) writes:
>In article <1991Apr24.163132.10805@dbase.A-T.COM> awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>[much stuff deleted]
>>>
>>Anyway, the answer to Mr. Grossman's question is that 1.0 does not
>>take advantage of extended memory.  You can upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1
>>by calling (800) 2-ASHTON, and I would highly recommend it, obviously.
>>1.0 is not the bug-riddled product you read about, but 1.1 fixes 
>>hundreds of little things that you may never run into and it also
>>uses less memory thanks to an innovative overlay manager.  And it
>>uses expanded/extended memory.
>>
>>/alastair/
>
>BTW, this update from dBASE IV 1.0 to version 1.1 is FREE of charge!

I have a suggestion for the marketing division at A-T that may help you
"regain the market share" (to steal a phrase from a previous posting) ...

Why don't you pay people, say $50 to "move to" (I don't want to use the
word "upgrade" here because I'm not sure it applies) version 1.1 and pay
people who don't own dBASE, say $500.? I think that is a fair price to pay
someone to take on a risk of that magnitude. Think about it ... they will
get the product, spend countless hours trying to navigate through the
poorly organized documentation, spend countless months trying to develop
applications only to discover that the number of bugs uncovered is simply
to great to represent using a 4-byte integer, and then, if that is not enough,
the poor souls will have to take on the aggravation (and humiliation) of
trying to sell their software over the net to someone even dumber than
themselves.

I think that a $500 gift for these poor unfortunates is a start in the
right direction!-)

Glenn