IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Tue Oct 2 20:23:59 2001

I believe that qbasic was included in some older nt and win9x
installations only as support for "edit"; i.e., you typed
"edit autoexec.bat" and the qbasic editor would be the
actual invoked program.

carlos.

At 05:52 PM 10/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Yay on NT4 Server, nay on NT2K Server.
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>George
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>On 2 Oct 2001 11:6:7 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
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>>Glen Goodwin skrev:
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>>>> 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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>>>No BASIC of any kind from Win95 on up.
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>>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?
>>
>>--
>>En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
>>
>>"Real life is full of idiots, and tons of ads. I don't see how IRC is any
>>different, other than a lot more people want to have sex with you."
>> -- m3000
>>
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 20:23:59 BST