Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> on 10/07/02 21:27, SlashDevNull at slashdevnull_at_mac.com wrote:
> [snip!]
>
>>Access was originally a communications program by microsoft.
>
>
> I always thought that Access was basically FoxBase repackaged?
Actually, the DBMS is the second product to bear the name "Microsoft
Access".
The first was a very forgettable DOS-based terminal program. It is
memorable mostly for having an incredibly egregious copy protection
scheme which was so badly implemented that it often couldn't correctly
detect the original floppy.
<<<john>>>
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