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From: dhumphre@su100l.ess.harris.com (David Humphreys)
Subject: Re: Lost Treasures Part III ?
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 21:10:07 GMT
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In article JDIFBRMB@netmbx.netmbx.de, fischer@netmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer) writes:
>In article <CADw4w.AAH@umassd.edu> hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs) writes:
>>In <KMHFBK9V@netmbx.netmbx.de> fischer@netmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer) writes:
>>>So the only one missing now is Cornerstone? Does anyone has a complete list
>>>of all games released by Infocom?
>>>What is Cornerstone about?
>>It's about a computer software company, founded to produce a database
>>product, which creates games to raise funding, and then creates the
>>database product, which kills the company, which is then sold to a
>>games publisher with the smallest clue ever.
>>Oh, okay.  Cornerstone is the database product that Infocom was founded
>>to write.  The rest, above, is what happened.
>
>Oh yeah, now I remember. Saw the ads back than, but never heard of it 
>since. 
>
>-Axel
>-- 
>fischer@netmbx.de                                                   DoD #0228


Actually, my father has a legal copy of it, and I've set up quite a few
commercial databases with it.  Its not really all that bad considering when it
came out.  It just didn't have the kind of name recognition to compete against
DBASE III which was king of the hill at the time.  Cornerstone was much easier
to use than DBASE III since it was meant for the non-programmer and had a
fairly decent menu interface.


David Humphreys
dhumphre@comanche.ess.harris.com

