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echo: win32
to: ALAN ZISMAN
from: ROBERT FOWLER
date: 1997-03-26 23:28:00
subject: Basic

[Quoting Alan Zisman to Glen Christensen]
AZ>.MSGID: 1:153/9.0 33387e70
  >Glenn  Christensen said to Alan  Zisman on 03-23-97 23:56:
AZ>AZ>Where does W95 refer to it as 'QuickBasic'? In fact, where does W95
  >AZ>to it at all?
AZ>GC>Someone here tipped me to its location in the folder OLDMSDOS. I though
  >GC>I would operate it from floppy, and copied it there, but soon got fed u
  >GC>with the slow speed and moved it onto the hard-drive and put a folder
  >GC>for it on the DESKTOP. When I run it a window comes up that says
  >GC>Microsoft QuickBASIC across the top. (This is the window that asks for
  >GC>"Parameters." I have no idea what parameters it is looking for, and it
  >GC>just goes away when I hit ENTER.)
AZ>Hmmm... you're right... I'd never actually dobule-clicked on it... just
  >opened it by typing QBASIC at a DOS prompt.
AZ>Despite the window reading "Microsoft QuickBasic", it isn't the compiled
  >Basic that was marketed under that name (up to 1988)... but instead seems
  >to be functionally equivalent to the other versions of QBASIC included 
ith
  >MSDOS versions from 5.0 to 6.22.
Another difference is that the Win95 MS-DOS text editor "EDIT" is not
dependent on qbasic.exe as it was in the DOS versions you note above.
The old editor allowed the split help/work screens identical to qbasic.
I would have preferred that this had not been updated...RF
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