Synchronize It! and Compare It! - superb GUI design, I still use them to this day for small simple jobs - one can still buy them, they still work, but unfortunately not upgraded for many many years. Synchronize It! can even copy sparse files, which is extremely rare.

-brahman (May 31, 2022, 08:53 PM)

Have they been forgotten? I thought they were still being sold? I use them all the time.

https://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm

-wraith808 (June 01, 2022, 10:31 AM)

Maybe it is more like not getting the love they deserve!

PC-Write was, I think, the first software I personally paid for.  I used that character-mode word processor for years before finally succumbing to the seduction of Windows GUI writing.  I still have the PC-Write packet here somewhere.  I'm too sentimental to throw it out.

Two of my old favorites were FoxPro and Rbase.
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But FoxPro was the absolute performance leader due to its indexing optimization technology FoxPro called:Rushmore.

-40hz (May 27, 2022, 09:38 AM)

Wow, is that a "blast from the past"!  I haven't heard that term "Rushmore" in this context since about 1994-5.  In my job at the time we were doing a lot of mailing list work and we found FoxPro to be a far better tool for manipulating that data than the antiquated database tool we were already using for in-house applications.