And it sucked!!!!!!!!!!
As for QuickBasic for DOS, it ended with version 4.5... sort of.
There was a professional version, called PDS, which ended at version 7.1
-Matt Pritchard
Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Withers [SMTP:bwit_at_pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 12:29 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Visual Basic for DOS?
>
>
> There actually was a Visual Basic for DOS product. It was very much
> like
> Visual Basic V1 execpt that everything was in character mode. It
> supported
> menus, listboxes, comboboxes, and like like without graphics.
>
> Bob
>
> At 04:56 PM 2/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Max,
> >
> >There was a Microsoft QuickBasic for DOS. I believe it got up to at
> >least version 4.0. I used it long ago on a project or two.
> >
> >You probably can find a cheap (~$20?) copy of this at some used
> software
> >store, like Half Price Software.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >Max Eskin wrote:
> >>
> >> It is my understanding that there was once a (Microsoft?) Visual
> Basic
> >> for DOS. Was it like VB for Windows, and was it any better than
> QBasic?
> >> If someone has a copy, could they let me (ahem) borrow it?
> >>
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