The end of the DOS - era began with the release of "The Turbo Database for Windows", which evolved from a cooperation between engine - hacker Ulrich Kern and the software - forge Pohmann & Partner. These days the TDB for Windows is named "Visual Data Publisher" (VDP) and is distributed by TDB Software Service GmbH.
| 1985 |
TDB (Source) |
Expandable database-toolbox for pascal-developers in sourcecode. |
| 1987 |
TDB-2 (Source) |
Database with input form and menu-technique in sourcecode. |
| 1988 |
TDB-3 |
First commercial version. Sourcecode available separately. |
| 1989/90 |
TDB-4 |
Fully relational database-system with innovative automatic file-linking. |
| 1990 |
TDB-4 1.1 |
Now inclusive macro-programming ability. |
| 1991/92 |
TDB-5 |
Relational database-system, with networking abilities and fully programmable. |
| 1994 |
TDB 5.5 |
Numerous Extensions, especially for the programming language "EASY". |
| 1995 |
TDB for Windows |
First Windows version |
| 1996 |
Visual Data Publisher (VDP) |
Database authoring-system based on TDB for Windows. |
| 1998 |
VDP 2.0 |
VDP 2.0 replaces TDB for Windows. |
| 1997/98 |
TDB-Engine |
Database-engine for internet applications (only for internal use) |
| 1999 |
tdbengine 6.0 |
Database-engine and EASY-interpreter/-compiler. |
| September 2000 |
tdbengine 6.2.4 |
Porting to Linux, FreeBSD and Win32. |
| May 2001 |
tdbengine 6.2.6 |
Continuous Extension of EASY, expansion of fulltext-procedures. |
| March 2002 |
tdbengine 6.2.7 |
Besides many new functions the tdbengine is released as freeware now. Simultaneously it is decided to release the tdbengine in the foreseeable future under the GPL license. |
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