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	Microsoft BASICA interpreter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Microsoft BASICA (short for "Advanced BASIC") is a simple disk-based BASIC interpreter written by Microsoft for PC-DOS.
		BASICA allows use of the ROM-resident BASIC on the PC while DOS is loaded (the ROM BASIC itself runs when nothing is loaded when booting) and adds functionality such as file access and storage of programs on disk.
		BASICA's successor is Microsoft GW-BASIC, which is very similar but doesn't use any ROM-based BASIC routines.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/m/mi/microsoft_basica_interpreter.html (172 words)

	Microsoft BASICA interpreter
		Microsoft BASICA is a simple disk-based BASIC interpreter written by Microsoft for the IBM-PC to be distributed with PC-DOS.
		BASICA added some features to the language which the ROM by itself would not be capable of such as filesystem access statements and the ability to save your work at the end of a session.
		The BASICA development environment was very similar to the integrated development environment used by Dartmouth BASIC.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/BASICA_programming_language.html (422 words)

	Microsoft BASICA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		BASICA allows use of the ROM-resident BASIC included with early models of IBM's PC while DOS is loaded (the ROM BASIC itself runs when nothing is loaded when booting) and adds functionality such as file access and storage of programs on disk.
		BASICA's development environment is very similar to that of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System associated with Dartmouth BASIC.
		BASICA's successor was Microsoft GW-BASIC, which was very similar but didn't use any ROM-based BASIC routines and thus can run on virtually any IBM compatible system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft_BASICA (190 words)

	Visual Basic .NET
		Interpreters are easier to implement and require no memory for object code, but the code runs much slower than compiled programs.
		Microsoft had several initiatives in development leading up to Visual Basic 1.0, all of which were intended to develop into long-term, strategic, graphical, object-oriented programming tools.
		Microsoft surveys in the late 1990's showed that roughly two-thirds of all business applications programming on PCs was being done in Visual Basic.
	www.vbgod.com /history.php (1785 words)

	microsoft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Microsoft Corporation is een bekende fabrikant van software voor computers en tevens de grootste producent van software ter wereld, gevestigd in Redmond in de Verenigde Staten (met Redmond wordt in de media dan ook vaak Microsoft bedoeld).
		Microsoft is run by Bill Gates, the world's richest man. Yet somehow, through it all, they manage to find the time to take care of the little things, such as squashing out their competition like cigar butts.
		Microsoft is the world's largest software company with over 50,000 employees in various countries as of May 2004.
	www.vocamania.com /microsoft.aspx (1127 words)

	Microsoft BASIC - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates with help from Monte Davidoff, using a self made Intel 8080 software simulator running on a minicomputer.
		After the initial success of Altair BASIC, Microsoft BASIC became the basis for a lucrative software licensing business, being ported to the majority of the numerous home and personal computers of the 1970s and especially the 1980s, and extended along the way.
		Hence, Microsoft's and other variants of BASIC constituted a significant and visible part of many home computers' rudimentary operating systems.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Microsoft_BASIC (296 words)

	The Visual Programmer -- MSJ, April 1996
		This was a conscious design decision by Microsoft to save program size, but it limits source file compatibility (not code compatibility, though).
		Microsoft Excel lets you install a whole bunch of graphic filters; in theory, you should be able to import any supported file type, convert it to a bitmap or metafile, and slap it into a Picture control.
		Microsoft Excel itself is encapsulated in an Application object, much like the Visual Basic App object.
	www.microsoft.com /msj/archive/S1D4C.aspx (1697 words)

	QbasicFAQ_BasicA at CodePedia
		BasicA programs also could be renamed and accompanied by a run-time interpreter for use as stand-alone programs.
		QBasic can run old BasicA files, as long as line continuance characters are removed, (the hyphen), and provided they are edited for unsupported commands and are syntactically correct, and of course, in ASCII text file format.
		BasicA command structure and syntax was mostly comparable.
	www.codepedia.com /1/QbasicFAQ_BasicA (188 words)

	Wikinfo \| BASIC programming language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By 1979 Microsoft was in talks with several microcomputer vendors, including IBM, to license a BASIC interpreter for their computers.
		Although it is somewhat difficult to consider this language to be BASIC (despite its using many familiar BASIC keywords) it has gone on to become one of the most used languages on the Windows platform, and is said to represent some 70 to 80% of all commercial development.
		The interpreter is written in C and comes under a GNU license.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=BASIC_programming_language (2323 words)

	FBWiki: CompilerQB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In fact, Microsoft's first product was a small BASIC interpreter for Altair computers released in 1975, and until the early 80s Microsoft was known only as a language vender.
		Interpreters read source code and "interpret" it into computer code as it is read.
		Because the "QBasic 1.1" interpreter was packaged with MS-DOS, it was released with every copy of DOS until its dying days, Windows 3.1 and even Windows 95, 98 and ME. With the wild success of Windows, QBasic became the most widely available programming tool available for Microsoft operating systems.
	www.freebasic.net /wiki/wikka.php?wakka=CompilerQB (735 words)

	True Basic; the creators of Basic show the way.
		The syntax differences between Microsoft BasicA and True Basic were not as bad as I had expected.
		The main problem is that Microsoft Basic has been around so long in its various dialects that it forms a tremendously powerful de facto standard.
		Microsoft is an entrenched competitor that will be exceedingly difficult to unseat.
	www.atarimagazines.com /creative/v11n10/54_True_Basic_the_creators_.php (3039 words)

	Pocket Computer Museum Page
		The IBM-DOS version of this interpreter became known as BASICA, and at the time IBM was in major competition with clones so it was setup to require the BIOS distributed with IBM computers.
		Microsoft realized just how popular their BASIC interpreter was and decided to distribute a compiler so users could code programs that ran without an interpreter.
		At this time Microsoft decided to release a product with more kick and started distributing PDS BASIC (Professional Development System) and ended it with version 7.1 (Also called QuickBasic Extended), PDS was a short lived idea and was not followed through to its true capabilities.
	members.tripod.com /geraldk/gdkpc4.html (901 words)

	Microsoft Game Shop
		Microsoft Game Shop includes a full-featured version of Microsoft's QuickBASIC interpreter plus six classic computer games, including a version of Tetris that you can both play and modify using QuickBASIC.
		But with Microsoft Game Shop, your fun and challenge are less in playing the games than in understanding how and why they work.
		If you're a beginning programmer, however, you'll find interpreted languages more than adequate and, in fact, beneficial in that they allow you to test programs quickly without having to compile them first.
	www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue130/136_Microsoft_Game_Shop.php (1535 words)

	Basic Language
		Microsoft Professional Basic is a complete Basic development system with all the features of high level language development system like overlay, library, real time kernel, etc. The ultimate version 7.1 was nearly bug free.
		Generally, the basic interpreters that came with the various 8-bit micros were developed by the companies that manufactured the computer (Apple, Atari, Commodore, etc.) MicrosoftBasic was a replacement BASIC.
		Actually, it would be more accurate to say that most BASIC interpreters for 8-bit micros had at least some code from Microsoft.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?BasicLanguage (731 words)

	kbAlertz: Assembler routines that are written to run with Microsoft GW-Basic (or with IBM BasicA or Compaq BasicA) and ...
		Assembler routines that are written to run with Microsoft GW-Basic (or with IBM BasicA or Compaq BasicA) and are passed a string variable as an argument will not run properly when called from QuickBasic compiled programs.
		This problem arises because the length of the string descriptor for QuickBasic strings (4 bytes) is 1 byte longer than the string descriptor for the GWBasic.EXE or the BasicA interpreter (3 bytes).
		In GW-Basic or BasicA, the first byte of the descriptor is the length of the string data and the next two are the offset of the string data.
	www.kbalertz.com /Feedback_33714.aspx (741 words)

	Microsoft GW-BASIC interpreter
		Like other early microcomputer versions of BASIC, GW-BASIC lacked many of the structures needed for structured programming such as local variables and also suffered from slowing due to the fact that it was an interpreted programming language.
		GW-BASIC was eventually superseded by the Microsoft BASICA interpreter, and later the Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler.
		GW-BASIC's main advantage over BASICA was that it did not require a BASIC interpreter on the ROM.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gw/GW-BASIC_programming_language.html (440 words)

	kbAlertz: Programs saved in the Binary (the default tokenized) format in the GW-Basic or BasicA Interpreter will appear ...
		BasicA is an interpreter shipped in the ROM of some IBM and COMPAQ computers.
		Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter is shipped with some versions of DOS, depending upon the hardware vendor or the version of MS-DOS.
		Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in Microsoft Basic Compiler versions 6.00 and 6.00b; in Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) versions 7.00 and 7.10; and in Microsoft QuickBasic versions 4.00, 4.00b, and 4.50 (buglist4.00, buglist4.00b, buglist4.50).
	www.kbalertz.com /kb_Q57931.aspx (539 words)

	History of the BASIC programming language - RC Hangout
		One of them is the first product from a new company called Microsoft, which begins its tradition of copying ideas from other products and then selling a version that requires more memory.
		Microsoft’s BASIC interpreter is encoded into ROM for all original IBM PCs.
		As a gesture of benevolence, Microsoft allows other languages to also use the new VB runtime, which is eventually christened the Common Language Runtime, or CLR.
	www.rcflying.net /forums/showthread.php?t=11213 (1185 words)

	Cannot Access FIELDed Variables After CLOSE in Compiled Basic
		This is a difference between the IBM BasicA Interpreter and the QuickBasic Compiler.
		You must assign the FIELDed variables to unFIELDed string variables to access the data in the FIELD buffer after the file is closed.
		Discussion groups and Forums about specific Microsoft products, technologies, and services.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/21815 (202 words)

	GW-BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		GW-BASIC was a dialect of BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq.
		It is compatible with Microsoft/IBM BASICA, but was disk based and did not require the resources of the ROM included on IBM's machines.
		GW-BASIC's main advantage over BASICA was that it did not require a BASIC interpreter on the ROM and so could be used on non-IBM PCs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft_GW-BASIC_interpreter (723 words)

	[No title]
		The IBM-DOS version of Basic known as the BASICA (which limited for IBM computers only), at the same time Microsoft had released their version of Basic known as GW-BASIC.
		GW-BASIC and BASICA like the same program the differences are they have different names and one is for IBM machines only one is for MS-DOS only.
		Microsoft had had published ten versions of QuickBasic from version 1.00 to 4.50.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/bill.lyle/415/Chan.doc (2907 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By the late 1970's Microsoft (Allen and Gates company) was developing a version of BASIC for virtually every new personal computer, including Apple, Commodore, and Atari.
		BASICA was a version of BASIC written by Microsoft for IBM's PC in 1981.
		Compared to the first microSoft BASIC, BASICA required more than 40K of memory, and had part of the language written into the ROM of the computer.
	www.outer-court.com /basic/file/hist.txt (457 words)

	Microsoft BASIC version information
		Microsoft's licensing spokesperson "Rich H." told me, on 2-8-00, that anyone with a valid license to use any recent version of Visual Basic is also licensed to use any older version of Microsoft Basic products.
		When the old GW-Basic interpreter began to show its age, Microsoft produced a stripped-down version of QuickBasic, essentially the IDE without the compiler and linker.
		Microsoft's BASIC compilers, before the diversion of QB (meant to address the horror of Borland's wildly successful Turbo Pascal), were up to version 5.35 or so (also sold as IBM BASCOM in versions 1.0 and 2.0 before IBM dropped the line).
	www.emsps.com /OLDTOOLS/msbasv.htm (3832 words)

	Use of Basic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Interpreted basic was also the prevalent environment in the original microcomputers.
		Basic in the Microsoft environment could be developed with the interpreter and then shipped with or without the runtime libraries.
		As the most common language used in Microsoft Applications, variations of basic (VBA) were used as the scripting facility in Access, Foxpro, Excel and Word.
	www.chair-pros.com /WPF/FritzUseBasic.htm (704 words)

	AddressOf.com : Timeline: BASIC to Visual Basic .NET
		Allen and Gates decided for an interpreter to overcome the limited amount of memory avilable, and, in fact, they were able to pack everything in 4K.
		The interpreted BASIC had another advantage, it was more interactive making debugging easier.
		Kemeney and Kurtz were very critical toward the interpreted language, despite this, some years later they acknowledged the positive effect interpreted BASIC had on the diffusion of BASIC.
	addressof.com /blog/articles/VBTimeline.aspx (1198 words)

	MI from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Microsoft was founded as "Micro-soft" in 1975 by Bill Gates (now CEO) and his high school pal Paul Allen.
		The MSX standard was designed by a company called ASCII in cooperation with Microsoft who provided a firmware version of its BASIC for the machine.
		Microsoft SQL Server was originally developed by Sybase Corporation but the cooperation was broken sometime before version 6.0 [anyone knows when?].
	www.instantweb.com /d/dictionary/foldoc.cgi?query=MI (6881 words)

	Basic
		It is available in both interpreted and compiled forms.
		The interpreter has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms with no alterations to source code necessary.
		The interpretive nature of Business Basic also enhances development efforts through permitting quick testing and debugging of code.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Heights/6121/basic.html (1473 words)

	comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ
		Microsoft's H model does use huge data pointers by default but retains DGROUP and its 64K limit, so switching to the huge model doesn't buy you anything if you have DGROUP problems.
		In Microsoft C, the exit code of a synchronous child process is the return value of the spawn- type function that creates the process.
		Microsoft and Borland C, as part of their exit code (after a call to exit() or a return from your main function), check whether the location 0000 in your data segment contains a different value from what you started with.
	www.jeffc.org /msdos/dos-faq.html (16814 words)

	Team Solutions GPIB AT ISA 16Bit
		The interface system for Microsoft® MS-DOS®, Windows® 3.x, Windows® 95/98, Windows® NT and Windows® 2000 operating systems completely supports the IEEE-488.2 and SCPI standard and may be operated as system controller in all computers.
		To be able to achieve high transfer rates, the software is split into the command interpreter and the BIOS.
		Microsoft® Windows®, Windows NT®, Visual Basic® and Visual C++® are either registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
	www.team-solutions.com /Products/ISAPCI/InesGPIB/iGPIBPAT.htm (1129 words)

	[No title]
		Please note that the source code is in BASICA.
		These programs can be run in the BASICA interpreter, but students will then be able to read the rules of the systems unless the code is protected.
		The *.exe files on this disk were made from the former.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/causey/PHLSIMREADME.TXT (324 words)

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