Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

Author: Stephen Russell

Posted: 2013-02-01 at 11:34:32

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:16 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <

mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:

> On 2/1/2013 11:23 AM, Bob Lee wrote:

>

>> Dbman was my favorite on SCO, (another dbase/fox clone) multi platform..

>> I could develop in dos, deploy multi user in sco xenix . same code..

>> almost

>> any os of the time (late 80s and 90') one could run dbman on it..

>>

>> http://www.mail-archive.com/**linux-apps@vger.rutgers.edu/**msg00871.html<http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-apps@vger.rutgers.edu/msg00871.html>

>>

>> Those were the days..

>> Bob Lee

>>

>

>

> Such a great achievement, and so ahead of its time. Did this trend

> discontinue simply because M$ wanted to dominate the OS world and hence not

> want their softwares to run on non-Windows machines?--------------------

>

At that time M$ financials all ran off of ??? SCO I believe.

--

Stephen Russell

Sr. Analyst

Ring Container Technology

Oakland TN

901.246-0159 cell

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