[AccessD] I was not going to post this

You're both right and also wrong. Visical was the first player in the game.
Lotus was second, and kicked Visicalc's ass. But neither of these compares
to dBASE-II, and the absolutely brilliant ad created by Hal Pollock, about
the bilge pump. Wayne was a genius, he wrote the whole thing in assembly
and it ran comfortably in 64k. It was originally called Vulcan but somebody
threatened him with a lawsuit, and Hal came to the table with a new name,
dBASE-II. As it happens, I was the first journalist to land interviews with
both of these folks. And yes, Visicalc made a huge impact, but dBASE-II
made a larger one.

Incidentally, for those into nomenclature, I asked Hal why it was called
dBASE-II and he said, and although that interview was about 30 years ago, I
think that I can quote him accurately, "Because dBASE One would have
sounded like a virgin product."

Arthur