IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof

From: Absurdly Obtuse <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Oct 2 17:44:09 2001

It's on the CD on 95, 98, and (I believe) 98SE, but it doesn't install to
HDD. You have to copy it manually.

Peace... Sridhar

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> Not on my 95, 98 second edition or ME machines, even searched using
> FIND...nope but it is on my Windows 3.11 machine, as it came with DOS
> 6.22...
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Iggy Drougge
> -> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:00 AM
> -> To: Glen Goodwin
> -> Subject: Re: IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof
> ->
> ->
> -> Glen Goodwin skrev:
> ->
> -> >> 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.
> ->
> -> >No BASIC of any kind from Win95 on up.
> ->
> -> Since my only Windows machine is de-electrified right now, I
> -> can't test that,
> -> but I am certain that I've run QBASIC on it. Would anyone
> -> sitting at one try
> -> that from a prompt?
> ->
> -> --
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> ->
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>
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