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A CP/M database system introduced in 1980 as dBase II and was quickly ported to most common 8 bit platforms, was ported to DOS in 1982 and later to OS/2 and MS Windows and became an industry standard in the early to mid 80's and the basis of the xBase language, but declined rapidly in the late 80's and early 90's.

Text & programmers editors with dBase support

Boxer - dBase support included by default - Commercial - OS/2 and DOS versions discontinued, Win32 versions still available.

Versions

DOS

1994 - dBase V
2013 - dBase Classic - Re-release of dBase V

Windows

2013 - dBase Plus 8, 8.1
2014 - dBase Plus 9.1, 9.2, 9.5
2015 - dBase Plus 10, 10.1, 10.2

Links

dBase LLC - Current owners of the dBase codebase.

License and availability

Commercial - OS/2 version discontinued - DOS version still sold and supported under the name dBase Classic - MS Windows version still developed.

Author

C. Wayne Ratliff (Original Author)
Ashton-Tate
Borland
KSoft
dBase LLC

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	A [[DOS]] and later OS/2 and [[MS Windows]] ~~database system that~~ became an industry standard in the early to mid 80's and the basis of the [[xBase]] language, but declined rapidly in the .		A [[CP/M]] database system introduced in 1980 as '''dBase II''' and was quickly ported to most common 8 bit platforms, was ported to [[DOS]] in 1982 and later to OS/2 and [[MS Windows]] and became an industry standard in the early to mid 80's and the basis of the [[xBase]] language, but declined rapidly in the late 80's and early 90's.

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