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	Microsoft BASIC version information
		QuickBasic itself was originally a variation on Microsoft's main BASIC product, BASCOM, which became the BASIC Professional Development System (last version 7.1), which was replaced by Visual Basic.
		QuickBASIC 1.0 had several maintenance updates until 1992 when v1.0e, the last version, was released.
		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 (3876 words)

	Definition of Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Microsoft QuickBASIC (often shortened, correctly, to QB, or incorrectly, to "QBasic", which is a different system) is a descendant of the BASIC programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for use with the MSDOS Operating System.
		Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 stored on a single 5.25" floppy disk.
		QuickBASIC came with a markedly different Integrated Design Environment (IDE) from the one supplied with previous versions of BASIC.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Microsoft_QuickBASIC_compiler (486 words)

	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 successor to QuickBASIC and PDS was Visual Basic 1.0 which came in incompatible versions for DOS and Windows.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qu/Quick_BASIC_programming_language.html (324 words)

	Bill Gates
		At the time, the community was strongly influenced by its ham radio legacy and the related Hacker ethic, which insist that innovations and knowledge should be freely shared in the community.
		Without revealing their ties with IBM, Microsoft executives in turn approached Seattle Computer, which had developed an x86-based operating system, and purchased the operating system for a reported sum of $50,000.
		Spectacularly successful, this deal was challenged in court by Seattle Computer on the grounds that Microsoft had concealed its relationship with IBM in order to purchase the operating system cheaply; subsequently, there was a settlement, but no admission of duplicity or guilt.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Bill_Gates.html (698 words)

	A Comparison of Basmark QuickBASIC and Microsoft BASIC
		While Microsoft’s QuickBASIC 2.0 is intended to be a superset of BASICA, conflicts exist but the importance of BASICA implies that these conflicts be regarded as inadequacies in QuickBASIC.
		Microsoft BASIC expects all lines to be numbered unless the /N option is given to the compiler; even in this case, line numbers that appear must be in ascending order.
		Microsoft BASIC has special language features for accessing IBM PC hardware such as joysticks, light pens, screen memory, serial ports, etc. Since Basmark QuickBASIC makes no assumption about the hardware on which it is running, it does not support these language features.
	www.leinweb.com /basic/manual/man3/compare.htm (1816 words)

	ipedia.com: Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Microsoft QuickBASIC 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 in addition to the interpreter.
		Unfortunately there were some small, subtle differences between the interpreter and the compiler, so that sometimes programs running perfectly well in the interpreter would fail after compilation, or even not compile at all.
	www.ipedia.com /microsoft_quickbasic_compiler.html (428 words)

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		By the spring of 1985, beta testers were using it heavily, and it was highly anticipated by all for a summer release.
		Microsoft was able to make inroads across the board, causing True BASIC to shrivel down to only the educational market.
		The last update released by Microsoft was in April 1992 with version 1.00e for System 7 compatibility (yet never becoming 32-bit clean).
	www.maccompanion.com /archives/May2006/Columns/AccordingtoHoyle.htm (2275 words)

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		Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Standard Edition The Standard Edition is designed for hobbyists, engineers, students and other casual programmers who need an easy, productive means for creating compiled MS-DOS-based applications that are portable to and from Windows.
		Microsoft QuickBasic, Basic PDS, Visual Basic for Windows and Borland* language users may acquire it at a special price of $99.
		Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Standard and Professional Editions are scheduled to be available in early September.
	humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk /humftp/FAQ/basic.faq (3516 words)

	LONG: Answers to Common Questions About QuickBasic 4.50
		QuickBasic has several features to help you create programs that are organized in a logical and structured manner.
		QuickBasic version 4.50 is more selective of the video hardware on which it will operate than QuickBasic versions 4.00 and 4.00b.
		QuickBasic 3.00 was actually shipped with two different versions: QB.EXE used MBF representation, and QB87.EXE, for machines with a math coprocessor, used IEEE format floating-point representation.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/58530 (3529 words)

	Microsoft Windows XP - Copyright
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		Microsoft is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Microsoft of the site.
		Microsoft does not make any assurances with regard to the accuracy of the results or output that derives from such use of any such tools and utilities.
	www.microsoft.com /resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/copyright.mspx (414 words)

	Visual Basic .NET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		A Microsoft Web article says, "At first glance, it may appear to you that Visual Basic.NET is so radically different from what you know that you will have to learn it all over again." For more information on Visual Basic.NET, see the article Upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 on the Microsoft Web site.
	www.vbgod.com /history.php (1785 words)

	QBasic Programs, Software and Programming Utilites from UnderWARE Labs
		It was developed by Microsoft from QuickBasic for use and inclusion with DOS 5.0 and later.
		QBasic is not entirely the same as QuickBasic, in that some code modification may be necessary to get the QB code to run on QuickBasic, but more importantly, QuickBasic code needs to first be saved in ASCII text format and edited to remove unsupported commands for it to run in QBasic.
		QuickBasic supports two methods of compilation; one that requires a run-time module, and one that creates a stand alone EXE file.
	members.aol.com /uwlabs/faq1.htm (3275 words)

	Lloyd Borrett - Computing - Articles - the future of BASIC
		The Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler series was perhaps the most influential of these, being very cheap yet extending the BASIC language and producing reliable fast compiled programs.
		Microsoft recently released BASIC version 7.1 which includes the Programmers WorkBench (an integrated development environment first included with Microsoft C version 6.0).
		Microsoft hasn't brought BASIC this far only to let it fall by the wayside.
	www.borrett.id.au /computing/art-1991-06-01.htm (654 words)

	Cow's Blog
		Office UI designer Jensen Harris reports on his blog that Microsoft has decided to license the Microsoft Office 2007 user interface to other developers under a royalty free license.
		At first glance it seems like Microsoft is simply licensing this out of the goodness of their heart.
		Microsoft probably knew people were going to do it anyway so this way gives Microsoft a bit more control over how the UI is used in other programs.
	cow.neondragon.net /index.php/index/view/tag/Microsoft (1886 words)

	kbAlertz: The following information summarizes the use of screen pages in Microsoft QuickBasic for MS-DOS with a ...
		This is not a problem with QuickBasic or a limitation of the adapter.
		QuickBasic was designed to conform to the behavior of other IBM monochrome adapters.
		QuickBasic, being a well-behaved application, makes this assumption so that its applications can run correctly on both IBM and Hercules monochrome systems in text mode without any detectable difference to you.
	www.kbalertz.com /kb_Q44237.aspx (539 words)

	QuickBASIC 4.5
		Microsoft QuickBASIC, version 4.5, is a fully integrated package that contains an editor, a compiler, a linker, and a debugger.
		QuickBASIC only lets you use one window at a given time, even though more than one may be displayed on the screen.
		QuickBASIC's editor provides a special feature called the "smart editor." Every time a new line is entered into the editor, the smart editor checks the line for syntax errors, formats the line as necessary, and compiles the source line in memory.
	www.petesqbsite.com /sections/tutorials/tutorials/qbtut.htm (5850 words)

	FBWiki: CompilerQB
		Microsoft and BASIC extend far prior to QuickBasic.
		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.
		QuickBasic also featured a runtime library, that is a library compiled by default and usable in source code, with many useful commands.
	www.freebasic.net /wiki/wikka.php?wakka=CompilerQB&show_comments=1 (1025 words)

	Quickbasic: Microsoft Quickbasic
		At the command prompt, type "floppy off" to disable the floppy drive and "floppy on" or "floppy" to enable the floppy drive.
		Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in QB.EXE in QuickBasic Versions 4.00, 4.00b, and 4.50 for MS-DOS.
		This problem was corrected in the QBX.EXE environment supplied with Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) Version 7.00 for MS-DOS and MS OS/2 (fixlist7.00).
	www.lycos.com /info/quickbasic--microsoft-quickbasic.html (170 words)

	Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site
		QuickBasic is a programming language developed by Microsoft for use in the MS-DOS operating system.
		Microsoft continued development of the QuickBasic language through its Professional Development System (PDS), the last release of which was version 7.1.
		QuickBasic 4.5 is the version of choice for most QB programmers because of its built-in compiler and ability to load external QuickLibrary (.qlb)extensions.
	www.petesqbsite.com /sections/introduction/intro.shtml (433 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		By the time QuickBASIC 4.0 was announced in late 1987, hundreds of thousand's of copies of QuickBASIC were in use around the world.
		QuickBASIC 4.5, was introduced in 1988 after BASIC 6.0.
	www.outer-court.com /basic/file/hist.txt (457 words)

	Computer Chronicles: 1991 - 1998
		Microsoft changes the name of the operating system shared with IBM called OS/2 v3.0 to Windows NT 3.0.
		The U.S. justice department asks a federal court to hold Microsoft in contempt because it may be forcing PC makers to distribute Internet Explorer as a condition of selling Windows 95.
		Microsoft is formally charged with violating the terms of the 1995 Final Judgement.
	library.thinkquest.org /22522/timeline5b_en.html (2421 words)

	WinSite: Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5
		To install the QuickBASIC you will have to unzip the QB45 directory and copy the contents of its subfolders DISK1 and DISK2 into an empty formatted floppy disk.
		Then you should run the 'setup.exe' file and follow on-screen instructions.
		About the copyright: As Microsoft no longer supports QuickBASIC, it is now a freeware product that is not available for free download at its developers website.
	www.winsite.com /bin/Info?14000000036569 (81 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.
		It is possible that CsharpLanguage is a cure for it, but VisualBasic has demonstrated a very long and unexpected life, when analysed from different quality perspectives.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?BasicLanguage (701 words)

	Liberty BASIC Home Page
		QuickBasic is similar to QBasic, but it could only be obtained by purchasing a license from Microsoft.
		QuickBasic has some more language features and also lets you create a program that can run by itself.
		These are real compilers, very similar to QBasic and QuickBasic and starting at just $25 (for FirstBasic downloadable here) up to several hundred dollars for the fancier products.
	www.libertybasic.com /qbwindowsfaq.html (721 words)

	American Meteor Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		QuickBasic was chosen because of its suitability for rapid prototyping, its integrated set of development tools, and its ease of use in controlling input/output (I/O) to peripheral devices such as A/D boards.
		The QuickBasic development environment allows for building small executable files that can be run from a computer with QuickBasic run-time libraries, or larger executables that have been linked to the run-time libraries and may be run from any computer.
		The size of the METEOR.EXE file in the former case is 19 kilobytes (KB) and in the latter case is 65 KB.
	www.serve.com /wh6ef/mallama/mallama7.html (607 words)

	Programmer's Library Release
		Microsoft Programmer's Library is the most powerful, comprehensive and up-to-date reference tool for professional PC programmers.
		Microsoft Programmer's Library is available now in single-user formats at retail outlets.
		Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ "MSFT") develops, markets and supports a wide range of software for business and professional use, including operating systems, network products, languages and application programs, as well as books, hardware and CD ROM products for the microcomputer marketplace.
	pages.prodigy.net /michaln/history/pr/proglib.html (1045 words)

	kbAlertz: The default text font for the Listing window in Microsoft QuickBasic for Macintosh is the default System ...
		kbAlertz: The default text font for the Listing window in Microsoft QuickBasic for Macintosh is the default System application font, which is Geneva, size 12, and Face 0 (plain text).
		The default text font for the Listing window in Microsoft QuickBasic for Macintosh is the default System application font, which is Geneva, size 12, and Face 0 (plain text).
		As an alternative to the QuickBasic editor, if you want a different text font (and size) for editing the source code, you can use Apple's Edit program that is included on the QuickBasic distribution disk in the Tools folder.
	www.kbalertz.com /kb_Q33042.aspx (1076 words)

	FREEBASIC - GPWiki
		It began as an attempt to create a code-compatible, free alternative to Microsoft QuickBASIC, but has quickly grown into a powerful development tool, already including support for libraries such as Allegro, SDL, OpenGL, and many others with its default installation.
		Aside from having a syntax nearly 100% compatible with QuickBASIC, FreeBASIC introduces several new features to the aged language, including pointers to variables and functions, and unsigned data types.
		It was designed to be compatible with QuickBASIC code, and therefore would not require you to learn anything new if you are already familiar with any Microsoft BASIC variant.
	gpwiki.org /index.php/FREEBASIC (589 words)

	Open Channel Foundation: Request MLITEMP
		This package includes sample executables which were compiled under The Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (BPDS).
		Although written for compilation under Microsoft BPDS, the programs of MLITEMP that do not use the menu, window, and mouse toolbox of BPDS can be modified and recompiled using Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5.
		Earlier versions of Microsoft QuickBasic may not compile the MLITEMP source code properly.
	www.openchannelsoftware.org /orders/index.php?group_id=73 (362 words)

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