> there was also a product called > "The Last One" which said it would be the only programming product you > would ever need.
Microsoft are still doing that. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, at 11:16 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > ... not forgetting Aston Tate Framework 1 and II which were great for > generating demo systems. > > At the time the A.C.T. Sirius I and Victor 9000 PC's came out (Designed > by the famous Chuck Peddle of Amiga fame) there was also a product called > "The Last One" which said it would be the only programming product you > would ever need. Sirius used it to promote the advanced Sirius II which > had variable speed 1.2Mb floppy drives on it.... really high tech but > nobody else could read the disks! > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier > Sent: 05 September 2017 11:10 > To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > Borland Turbo Pascal V2 was the real turning point for me.... all on a > 360Kb floppy and only about 50 UK Pounds. I wrote a myriad of business > apps with it and started my first self employed business on the back of > it. It was magical to demonstrate the speed, ease of use and flexibility > to all my ex ICL colleagues who were still working on mainframes at the > time. Turbo Pascal, Sidekick to multi task and edit meant you could write > virtually anything. > > I then progressed to Turbo Pascal 3 and FoxBase/Foxplus etc. on DOS and > SCO Xenix as well as other xBase products starting mainly with Dbase II. > III and IV, Nantucket Clipper V4.3 which was super-fast and ultra > reliable. > > CA Visual Objects was the first product to encompass Objects into an > "xBase like" framework but I never got on with it as it was too > regimented and structured for my liking despite buying it along with > RBase 2 and 3, an Ashton Tate product that was a good attempt at > generating multi tier relational database models. > > Oh happy days and I still have all the original software, manuals and > disks!! > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke > Sent: 05 September 2017 09:18 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy > > My first real programming outside 8-bit home computers was Pascal on a > VAX II/780 mainframe. 15 minutes to compile when the lab was busy. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 04:56 PM, > [email protected] wrote: > > On 2017-09-01 03:31, Dave Crozier wrote: > > > Brilliant ingenuity! > > > > > > I started on Fortran, Algol 60 and COBOL but only liked Algol and > > > went on to love Pascal obviously. > > > > > > Loved loved loved Pascal way back in the late 80s/early 90s. I think > > somebody said that Delphi is today's Pascal? > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1504609315.160824.1095599304.11c56...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
