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What was a great program that's now been forgotten?
irkregent:
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)
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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.
irkregent:
A more modern version here: https://github.com/Awesome-Windows/Awesome
-ibay770 (May 26, 2022, 01:48 PM)
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This is a great list. There are a number of goodies there that I have never heard of. Thanks for the point.
irkregent:
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.
ibay770:
A more modern version here: https://github.com/Awesome-Windows/Awesome
-ibay770 (May 26, 2022, 01:48 PM)
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This is a great list. There are a number of goodies there that I have never heard of. Thanks for the point.
-irkregent (May 27, 2022, 06:21 PM)
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My pleasure. I made a list with the stuff I use personally.
brahman:
Daytimer Organizer - my favorite PIM of all times. Never found a PIM so perfect ever again. It seems all PIMs become dumber and less customizable every year.
AMI Pro Word processor, the most easy to use word processor I ever worked with
Quattro Pro spreadsheet - the first spreadsheet that was actually fun to work with.
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.
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