IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof

Not sure but GW would usually run programs made for BASICA without any problems that I ever saw. Of course there's a certain amount of a standard to the BASIC language itself that leads to that for most things. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Derek Peschel -> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:11 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof -> -> -> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:24:40AM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote: -> > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote: -> -> > > If memory serves the one real thing that cloners couldn't -> duplicate, maybe -> > > due to copyright, was the ROM BASIC but that they'd -> duplicated everything -> > > else including the BIOS or a very good part of it. That -> pretty much led to -> > > IBM losing a lot in the PC market. -> > -> > It should be pointed out that MS owned the copyright to BASIC, which is -> > probably why it wasn't included on clones. They would have -> had to obtain -> > a license from MS. -> -> So does that mean that BASICA (ROM + disk additions) and GWBASIC -> (disk only) -> shared features or even code? -> -> -- Derek ->