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.
>
>George
>
>On 2 Oct 2001 11:6:7 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>
>>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?
>>
>>--
>>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(a)nospammers.ieee.org
> Drop to DOS on any machine with a 5.25" drive you have access to. Type:
>
> format /u /s a:
Okay Sellam, I'll bite -- what's the /u parameter?
Glen
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From: Chris <mythtech(a)Mac.com>
>I just did a search in win95 for basic (this is a fresh install of
win95,
>so no other software has been added)... and there are NO matches. Going
>to a command line and typing Qbasic give a "bad command or file name" as
>I would expect since find found nothing.
the standard install does not copy it to the disk. Check the CDrom as
it's there
in a seperate directory.
>WinME has the same results. I can't test 98 or NT 4 or 5 from home, so I
>can't say what is on them, but I would guess the same thing (nothing).
It's also on my NT4/server, Nt4/workstation, 98 and 98se none of which
install it automagically. it can be installed on W2000 from what I've
been
told but again it's a manual install.
Allison
I also have W95osr2 cdroms with Qbasic on them as old software.
My dos 5.0 kit has Qbasic and the 6.22full kit has it as well. the 6.22
upgrade does nto as it already part of the system (upgrade from dos5.0).
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Sipke de Wal <sipke(a)wxs.nl>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof
>My CD-ROM is a special release for educational institutions and
>may have the PLUS CD incorporated !
>
>Sipke de Wal
>---------------------------------------------
>http://xgistor.ath.cx
>---------------------------------------------
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman(a)kih.net>
>To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:04 AM
>Subject: RE: IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof
>
>
>> 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(a)classiccmp.org
>> -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@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?
>> ->
>> -> --
>> -> 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
>> ->
>> ->
>>
>
>
> 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.
Glen
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>>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?
I just did a search in win95 for basic (this is a fresh install of win95,
so no other software has been added)... and there are NO matches. Going
to a command line and typing Qbasic give a "bad command or file name" as
I would expect since find found nothing.
WinME has the same results. I can't test 98 or NT 4 or 5 from home, so I
can't say what is on them, but I would guess the same thing (nothing).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I wrote:
> > This was the point to my original question: why would clone makers go
to
> > the trouble of displaying the message and then halting the system,
instead
> > of just *halting the system*? (Unless they were using stolen code.)
Just
> > doesn't quite make sense . . .
Hans replied:
> To tell the user what had happened?
> The code pointed to by Int 18H is responsible for printing that message
> and could be invoked from elsewhere than th BIOS boot sequence so it
> seems just user friendly to display some message if you are going to
> hang the system.
"No ROM BASIC" does not tell the user what happened. "No bootable device
found" would be more helpful.
> Of course today you would get a BSOD - much more informative ;-)
Yes, thank God for Bill Gates ;>)
Glen
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So I dropped by the computer shop today and they had a Tandy 1800HD laptop
for $10. I grabbed it. It's in excellent condition. Unfortunately, someone
stole the power-supply... Any idea where I can get one? Also, were might I
find a scanned manual for this thing?
Blair
