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When P. Khan would show up at the Houston computer club there would be literally ten thousand people in Honolulu shirts waiting to cheer him on for the release of his latest and greatest. A uniformed high school band he hired would proceed him as he entered the auditorium flinging floppy discs like frisbees of his prerelease around the room. Borland's idea was to include a selectable menu structure at the top of each of his programs to emulate the menu structure of all popular programs or, alternately, you could roll your own. If you liked Lotus 123, his Quattro Pro had those drop downs. If you liked Word perfect, Word, Worstar his wordprocessor had those drop downs. Same for database, etc. He got sued by Microsoft for copyright and had to leave off their menus, but there was a menu-maker, so, with some labor you could still make recreate what you were used to. Khan made the very first phone camera when his kid got born. He was reportedly not into ruthlessness and got sidelined by Microsoft. At one time I would have thought that Borland would eclipse Microsoft.
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