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N.B. Access for DOS was not a database. It was a communications program with preconfigured settings for popular services like CompuServe and Dow Jones. It wasn't generic like Crosstalk (also featured); to my knowledge it couldn't do anything that it didn't have a configuration for. Clearly aimed at the "on the go" business person who wanted to check stock prices or something without worrying about baud rates or stop bits.





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