IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon Oct 1 18:19:53 2001

Sellam Ismail skrev:

>> me. It served no real purpose that late in life when most people had
>> moved on to C++ and Pascal and it was rare to find someone that used
>> BASIC or BASICA - especially since the cassette port was gone as of
>> the XT 5160.

>Too bad it isn't still there. It was a simple way for people (especially
>kids) to be introduced to programming.

Isn't QBASIC delivered even to this day with Windows systems? That's a much
nicer basic, and it features online help, which is great for kids.

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Received on Mon Oct 01 2001 - 18:19:53 BST

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