For over 27 years I have been involved in the "pick" world that morphed from R83 to Prime Information and subsequently morphed into IBM's Unidata/Universe databases. Along the way my company U2logic created tools for myself and my staff to use. We even sold some of them along the way to our customers and fellow programmers.
I created a programming environment called APT which was short for A Programmer's Tool. In retrospect it was not much of a tool. The competitors at that time where Toads, SB, and TPS to name a few I remember.
Funny now, I even remember creating a BASIC full screen editor that was based on my experience with the one I used in Revelation version G. That full screen editor was called S.EDT. Of course, I never sold it. That name is really awful must have been thought up by a programmer. Oh yeah, it was.
I will be on my soap box from time to time and even evangelistic about the databases I use everyday. You have to be our world is not driven by any company marketing effort on IBM's part but on the backs of the VAR's (Value added resellers) that dominate this marketplace.
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