Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

[Patricia Logan]

Hi, Cecil,

     I am a little confused by your message.  You mentioned 
dbase.  Does this mean that we are lucky enough to have a dbase 
version for linux?  That would make my day.

     Pat
On Thu, 30 May 2002, 
Cecil H. Whitley wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> Both SAS and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) were born on
> mainframes.  The windows versions are simply ports.  The historical
> spreadsheet program of course is 1.2.3 and/or twin.  As for database
> programs it's d-base.  Remember word star?  If my memory serves me correct,
> these were born under cp/m?
> 
> Cecil
> 
> 
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