A database management system and programming language developed by Fox Software and later acquired by Microsoft.
Named after Fox Software, the company that created it in the 1980s. The 'pro' suffix indicated it was the professional version of their FoxBASE database system.
FoxPro was revolutionary for bringing powerful database capabilities to personal computers when mainframes dominated data processing. Its xBase programming language influenced an entire generation of database developers and competed directly with dBASE for market dominance in the DOS era.
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