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

2 Oct 2001

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?

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