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Fwd: A Trio of Historical Recollections

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Jonas Maebe

For the historians :)

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From: Dan Allen Date: Tue 11 Oct 2011 05:11:35 GMT+02:00 To: development MPW Subject: A Trio of Historical Recollections 26 years ago today, on October 10, 1985, MacPascal 1.0 was completed. This was an interpreted Pascal application for the Mac. You could see your code in one window, and the output of your program in another window. It bolded keywords and really was a snazzy program in its day. It inspired LightSpeed C and a host of other programs. (Microsoft Basic and Apple's unshipped Basic were in this same vein.) Also, we had found a bad MPW Shell memory bug that was fixed on October 10, 1986, thus giving us MPW 1.0.1, 25 years ago today. And another piece of ancient history: Microsoft completed Microsoft File 1.02 on October 11, 1985. Microsoft File was a nice database in the early days of the Mac. When OverVue came out and RAM increased, it beat File on speed but File was disk-based and could hold more data. Dan

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brian
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Jonas Maebe wrote
For the historians :)

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And another piece of ancient history: Microsoft completed Microsoft File 1.02 on October 11, 1985. Microsoft File was a nice database in the early days of the Mac. When OverVue came out and RAM increased, it beat File on speed but File was disk-based and could hold more data.

I guess Ashton-Tate didn't do you a version of dBASE then? :)

Brian
(who remembers writing a roadstone database using dBASE II and CP/M back in the very early 80s).

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