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	Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler
		Microsoft QuickBASIC (often shortened, correctly, to QB, or incorrectly, to QBASIC) is a descendant of the BASIC programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for use with the MSDOS Operating System.
		It was loosely based on Microsoft GW-BASIC but in addition provided user-defined types, improved programming structures, better graphics and disk support and a compiler rather than an interpreter.
		The editor also had an interpreter built in which would run the program without leaving the editor at all, and could be used to debug the program before creating an executable file.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qu/Quick_Basic.html (324 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.
		A similar BASIC interpreter was Microsoft GW-BASIC that shipped with MS-DOS and didn't rely on the embedded ROM BASIC interpreter.
		While Microsoft sold QuickBASIC separately from DOS, a subset of the language called QBASIC continued to be included with DOS and later Microsoft Windows.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/BASICA_programming_language.html (422 words)

	BASIC Summary
		Interpreted code allows you to know immediately when the code encounters a problem area, unlike compiled code, where you have to wait until the program is complete before being able to identify problem areas.
		The original BASIC language was designed in 1963 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
		Versions of Microsoft BASIC soon started appearing on other platforms under license, and millions of copies and variants were soon in use; it became one of the standard languages on the Apple II (based on the quite different 6502 MPU).
	www.bookrags.com /BASIC (4087 words)

	BASIC
		But, like it or not, BASIC is still the most widely-available language for micros; and it is the language most novices who wish to begin programming their PC's must learn.
		This is a Microsoft BASIC, the descendant of the original Altair BASIC that gave Bill Gates his start in the software field in 1975, when he was still a college student.
		One of the problems of Basic was that every micro had its own dialect, and they were all incompatible; this is not so relevant any more, since all the other systems are gone and solely the PC remains.
	members.chello.at /theodor.lauppert/computer/basic.htm (647 words)

	BASIC_programming_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original BASIC language was invented in 1963 by John Kemeny (1926–93) and Thomas Kurtz (1928–) at Dartmouth College and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
		BASIC was intended to address the complexity issues of older languages with a new language designed specifically for the new class of users the time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a "simpler" user who was not as interested in speed as in simply being able to use the machine.
		BASIC also had the advantage that it was fairly well known to the young designers who took an interest in microcomputers at the time as a result of Kemeny and Kurtz's earlier proselytizing.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=BASIC_programming_language (3215 words)

	Microsoft GW-BASIC interpreter: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Microsoft GW-BASIC interpreter
		GW-BASIC (GW being short for gee-whiz) was a dialect of BASIC which was provided free with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PCs by Microsoft.
		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.
	www.encyclopedian.com /gw/GW-BASIC-programming-language.html (473 words)

	Methods / Experimental
		Basically, the thermoelectric heat pump is a solid state pump without any moving parts, fluids or gases.
		Basically the AD590 is a two-terminal integrated circuit temperature transducer which produces an output current proportional to absolute temperature.
		BASIC is one of many programming languages understood by the RTI board.
	www.cis.rit.edu /research/thesis/bs/1998/ientilucci/MethodsExperimental.htm (2330 words)

	Microsoft BASIC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the (Click link for more info and facts about Microsoft) Microsoft company.
		It was delivered on (A long narrow strip of paper) paper tape and in its original version took 4 (A unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes) KB of memory.
		Hence, Microsoft's and other variants of BASIC constituted a significant and visible part of many home computers' rudimentary ((computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services) operating systems.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/microsoft_basic4.htm (399 words)

	Potent Portables: Random Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The values of a and c may vary with the version of BASIC and the computer for which the RND function was written.
		Microsoft Basic offers the RND function to return random single-precision numbers between 0.000000 and 1.000000.
		Microsoft Basic uses the linear-congruential method for random-number generation in the RND function.
	www.web8201.com /PotentPortables/rnd.html (1139 words)

	About Treebeard's BASIC Vault
		BASIC is more forgiving than C/C++, perfect for writing a quick program to use in my classroom the next day.
		BASIC and hardware have gotten better at about the same speed I have since my first Sinclair ZX-80 almost 20 years ago.
		BASIC is perfect for small programs, but my projects have a way of growing large until I hit a wall.
	www.rain.org /~mkummel/basic.html (1581 words)

	microsoft's timeline from 1975 - 1990
		Microsoft is still exclusively in the business of developing languages, and Microsoft BASIC is the language of choice for the entire burgeoning industry.
		Microsoft announces the Microsoft Z-80 SoftCard, a microprocessor on a printed circuit board that plugs into the Apple II computer and allows owners to run thousands of programs available for the 8080/Z-80 class of computers with only minor modifications.
		Microsoft BASIC was enhanced and became GW-BASIC (for "gee-whiz"), used for everything from specialized programs to "quick-and-dirty" coding.
	www.thocp.net /companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm (7781 words)

	The Ultimate Microsoft BASICA - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 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 successor was Microsoft GW-BASIC, which was very similar but didn't use any ROM-based BASIC routines and thus can run on pretty much any IBM compatible system.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Microsoft_BASICA (221 words)

	BASIC Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page
		Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS is an old-fashioned Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Macs.
		Chipmunk Basic was featured in the Programming Paradigms column of the December 1995 issue of Dr.
		Little C (interpreter for a subset of the C language, written in C) (published in Dr Dobb's Journal, August '89) (Think C source, Info-Mac stuffit binhex archive) By Herbert Schildt.
	www.nicholson.com /rhn/basic (2780 words)

	History of BASIC
		BASIC was born in 1964 at Dartmouth College in the USA to aid the teaching of computer programming at a time when the main methods of input/output were via punched card and/or paper tape.
		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.
		Basic was the first product sold by Microsoft corporation, and also the first major case of software piracy - It was copied widely even before Microsoft made it available (Bill Gates lost track of a copy on paper tape during a computer show).
	www.phys.uu.nl /~bergmann/history.html (973 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.
		Microsoft BASIC for the 6800 and 6809 microprocessors.
		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)

	BeginnersGuideToBasic at CodePedia
		Basic, or more properly BASIC, stands for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and first showed up in 1964 as a project headed by J. Kenemy and T. Kurtz for the G.E.225 computer.
		When Microsoft realized how popular Basic was, they came up with a compiler to produce executables that wouldn't need an interpreter.
		Visit the Basic section of the site to see articles on Basic as well as source code, developer tools and links to many sites, including tutorials pitched at many different levels.
	www.codepedia.com /1/BeginnersGuideToBasic (543 words)

	Precedence and Prophylactic Parentheses
		Chipmunk BASIC disagrees with chalkboard algebra though it may be the only BASIC to be that way.
		Perhaps if the syntax x^n were interpreted as shorthand for an inline function equivalent to pow(x, n) the disconnect between computer science and algebra would disappear.
		Microsoft acknowledges the disconnect with chalkboard algebra for all versions of Excel calling it an "unexpected positive value" but argues that the result is correct because of their order of operations.
	www.macnauchtan.com /pub/precedence.html (6105 words)

	GWBASIC
		It still runs on Microsoft Windows computers thru WindowsXP, though not in a window, but on the fl screen used for MS-DOS programming above that will pop up when you click on the GWBASIC icon.
		GW-BASIC is an interpreted language which means that it isn't compiled.
		You can also run a program by "dragging and dropping" the program on top of the interpreter.
	www.geocities.com /KindlyRat/GWBASIC.html (513 words)

	G
		The release of Microsoft Windows 3.0 in 1990 led to widespread use of a graphical user interface on IBM PC-compatible computers.
		In vector graphics, the computer is told to put a real or imaginary pen in a particular position and then draw a line a certain distance in a certain direction (Or draw a line to another specific point).
		Microsoft's interpreter for the dialect of BASIC that was implemented in ROM on the IBM PC.
	www.wordbench.com /dic/g.html (2371 words)

	CHAIN MERGE Can Repeatedly Append Second Program to First (45899) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This information applies to the interpreter in Microsoft QuickBASIC Version 1.00 for Apple Macintosh, Microsoft BASIC Interpreter Versions 1.00, 1.01, 2.00, 2.10, and 3.00 for Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter Versions 3.20, 3.22, and 3.23 for MS-DOS.
		Note that in QuickBASIC Version 1.00 for Macintosh and in the BASIC interpreter Versions 2.00, 2.10, and 3.00 for Macintosh, the CHAIN MERGE statement does not merge numbered lines in numerical order, since line numbers, like labels, can be in any order.
		In Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter for MS-DOS and in the BASIC interpreter Versions 1.00 and 1.01 for Macintosh, line numbers are required on every line, and the CHAIN MERGE statement interleaves (rearranges) line numbers in numerical order.
	www.it-faq.pl /mskb/45/899.HTM (333 words)

	Humorix \| Microsoft Conspiracy Theories
		Microsoft doesn't bundle a stripped down version of VB with Windows like it did QBASIC with DOS (although just about everything else is bundled in Windows, except maybe a kitchen sink (slated for release with Windows 2002)).
		The fact that Windows itself comes with no BASIC interpreter is another fiendish plan devised to confuse anybody attempting to unravel this conspiracy.
		Visual C++, with its Microsoft Foundation Classes, is a prime example of the raw evilness pouring from Redmond.
	humorix.org /articles/may99/ms-conspiracies.shtml (1466 words)

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	www.nyise.org /whatsnew/rfb.txt (5911 words)

	Floating Point Formats Used by Microsoft BASIC Products (45166) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Microsoft BASIC Compiler versions 6.00 and 6.00b for MS-DOS and MS OS/2.
		Microsoft BASIC (b) Interpreter versions 1.00, 1.01, 2.00, 2.10, and 3.00 for the Apple Macintosh.
		Microsoft BASIC Compiler version 1.00 for the Apple Macintosh (compiled WITHOUT the compiler's D option).
	www.sunsite.org.uk /sites/ftp.microsoft.com/MISC/KB/en-us/45/166.HTM (474 words)

	CHAIN MERGE Can Repeatedly Append Second Program to First
		This information applies to the interpreter in Microsoft QuickBASIC Version 1.00 for Apple Macintosh, Microsoft BASIC Interpreter Versions 1.00, 1.01, 2.00, 2.10, and 3.00 for Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter Versions 3.20, 3.22, and 3.23 for MS-DOS.
		Note that in QuickBASIC Version 1.00 for Macintosh and in the BASIC interpreter Versions 2.00, 2.10, and 3.00 for Macintosh, the CHAIN MERGE statement does not merge numbered lines in numerical order, since line numbers, like labels, can be in any order.
		In Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter for MS-DOS and in the BASIC interpreter Versions 1.00 and 1.01 for Macintosh, line numbers are required on every line, and the CHAIN MERGE statement interleaves (rearranges) line numbers in numerical order.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/45899 (370 words)

	Articles - BASIC programming language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original BASIC language was invented in 1963 by John Kemeny (1926–1993) and Thomas Kurtz (1928–) at Dartmouth College and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
		The BBC published BBC BASIC, developed for them by Acorn Computers Ltd, incorporating many extra structuring keywords, as well as comprehensive and versatile direct access to the operating system.
		Many other BASIC variants and adaptations have also sprung up in the last few years, authored by hobbyists, equipment developers, and others.
	www.gaple.com /articles/BASIC_programming_language (3177 words)

	List of Microsoft Support Knowledge Base Articles starting with 30389
		Microsoft BASIC offers a LOG() function that returns only the natural logarithm, that is, the logarithm to the base e.
		Basic programs no longer have to be developed as one large program; they can be written as separate, functionally grouped sets of subroutines that...
		Basic will allow input from or output to the DOS null device, which is a file named "NUL" or "NUL.xxx" (where "xxx" can be any set of none, one, two, or three alphanumeric letters).
	www.kbfind.com /KBList4/KBList30389.htm (14316 words)

	LPRINT with ";" Prints Nothing Until 80-Byte Buffer Is Full (69845) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Microsoft BASIC Compiler for MS-DOS and OS/2 6.0
		Microsoft BASIC Compiler for MS-DOS and OS/2 6.0b
		If a semicolon (;) terminates the LPRINT statement, thus concatenating subsequent LPRINT output onto the same line, then the printer will not print the line until the contents of the printer buffer exceeds 80 characters (one line) or until the printer receives a carriage return plus linefeed (CR+LF) sequence.
	www.it-faq.pl /mskb/69/845.HTM (298 words)

	GW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Armed with one hardcopy of a 2,000 line BASIC program and a copy of the binary for the same I set to work.
		The interpreter still needs 1.5 floating point formats built into it [those are hard to figure out!], and some of the stranger opcodes are still missing: PEEK, POKE, COM, etc...
		Before working on a much larger project, it would be convenient to have a small test case to work with.
	www.lily.org /users/cratliff/gwbasic (426 words)

	BASIC_programming_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most came with a BASIC interpreter in ROM, a feature pioneered by the Commodore PET in 1977.
		Many programs, especially on the Apple II and IBM PC, depended on the presence of Microsoft's BASIC interpreter and would not run without it; in this way, Microsoft used its copyright licenses on its BASIC interpreter to gain leverage in negotiations with the computer vendors.
		There is, however, a method available to the programmer if a visible difference between the two is wanted: the optional LET keyword allows for assignments to be clearly and unambigously distinguished from the use of the equality operator.
	q-basic.xodox.de /BASIC_programming_language (3332 words)

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