IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Oct 2001

...
  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

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