From cisin@xenosoft.com Mon Oct  1 17:15:46 2001
From: cisin@xenosoft.com
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:15:46 +0000
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> cost more, hence they left that out and included an on-disk BASIC
> interpreter, known as GW-BASIC. I'm not even sure if MS was responsible for
> the GW version either.

Yes. MICROS~1 provided GWBASIC to all of the clone NMS-DOS licensees.  It
is ALMOST identical to BASICA.

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