--- Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/10/06, Rickey Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Whatever happened to Michael whatshisname that ran Borlan? > > Are you byy chance thinking of Phillpe Kahn? The guy that used to > be > picured in the Turbo Pascal ads sailing his yacht? He was on top of > the world back then. Borland did some great DOS software: Sidekick, > Quatro, Paradox... Too bad though about the Ashton-Tate/dBase > acquisition; the beginning of the end. > > He is still around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipe_Kahn Wow! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Sidekick was a great little app. God, I used dBase with CP/M and MP/M... if code now was as tight and small as it was then, you could run the Pentagon on a 486. <g> Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
