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10 Oct 2024 11:19:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tell me it isn't so!  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 27 Jul 2009 17:59:29
Message: <4a6e2341$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:43:02 -0500, Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 07/27/09 11:58, clipka wrote:
>> I think it was not before DOS 5.0 that Microsoft started to bundle
>> BASIC again with DOS, possibly in an attempt to revive the dwindling
>> popularity of BASIC; still it was not as omnipresent as it had been in
>> the home computer era, so it didn't manage to attract as many new
>> enthusiasts.
> 
> 	Not 100% sure, but I think every version of DOS I had had either 
qbasic
> or gwbasic or basica.

I vaguely remember there being a BASIC interpreter in MS-DOS 3.3...

Jim


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