Author: John R. Sowden
Posted: 2016-12-19 at 17:00:33
These were the fun days. New software coming on the market all the
time. The annual West Coast Computer Faire was where 'it was' in the SF
Bay Area. This is where I bought my copy of dBASE II for CP/M from
George Tate of Ashton-Tate while he was manning a dealer's booth! Word
Tech, from Orinda, here in the SF Bay Area had come out with a previous
program to compete with dBASE III, dBXL. It was also an interpreter.
The developers wanted to protect their code so we had several bundled
.EXEs that had the interpreter embedded in them. Arago, as I remember
was not a great feature improvement. Its claim to fame was it would
test all the if/thens, etc. with all the answers to find errors that
would take developers a long time. I also heard that Borland bought
it. Either they wanted the WordTech products off the market or they
wanted the WordTech staff, because the products disappeared.
This type of database application creator is what I have been looking
for under Linux since the '90s. Can't find it, so I use Foxpro/DOS
under Dosemu/Linux.
John
On 12/19/2016 12:10 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> More like Clipper then in a way, i.e. compiles to a self-contained EXE.
> Interesting.
>
> -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Mon, 19 Dec 2016,
> at 06:59 PM, Michael Glassman wrote:
>> Here's a PC Magazine review from 1992, with comparisons to FoxPro 2.0,
>> which
>> was released one year earlier. FoxPro was faster, but it lacked such a
>> complete compiler.
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=hnvCf6WlcYcC&pg=PP46&lpg=PP46&dq=arago+pro
>> fessional&source=bl&ots=CYTybALpXo&sig=yr1ebEAKHHLpSO8_jUHgoNzdqhE&hl=en&sa=
>> X&ved=0ahUKEwjR-JjI9oDRAhUKw1QKHXltAqAQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=arago%20professi
>> onal&f=false
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted
>> Roche
>> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 10:38 AM
>> To:profoxtech@leafe.com
>> Subject: Re: [NF] Arago
>>
>> Here's an ad from 1992:
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=3D0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA12&ots=AEALCrHqG6&dq=db
>> XL%20dbase%20database&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=dbXL%20dbase%20database&f=false
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Alan Bourke<alanpbourke@fastmail.fm>
>> wrote:
>>> Came across the name of this tool which I'd never heard of -
>>> apparently it was an early 90's dBase-compatible system from Wordtech
>>> which I believe Borland then bought. Anyone ever use it?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Alan Bourke
>>>
>>> alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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