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Microsoft Basic - (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC.

When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs.

QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private.

From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard.

Latest version: 1.1, also produces stand-alone executables and can display graphics.

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.basic.misc.

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Among the early innovators and producers of software in this field was Microsoft with its first version of Microsoft Basic.

Circuit Board Screwed onto a Piece of Plywood by padam / Communications, general community

We wrote the 240-line display program in Microsoft BASIC for an Apple IIe with Digital Research's CP/M disk-operating system and 80-character text.

Easy-to-read immunochemical graphics by VanderHeiden, Gary L. / Medical Laboratory Observer

As co-founder and president of Balcones Computer Company, John purchased the source code and distribution rights for, what later became, Microsoft Basic from Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

FundsXpress Announces Senior Management Team by Business Wire

microscopic reversibility

microscopical diagnosis