Re: [Freedos-devel] Instituting a vetting process for FreeDOS software

[Ralf Q. <fre...@gm...>]

On 1/28/2015 6:26 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
>> Again, we need to be very clear here. QBASIC (the interpreter) was free
>> as a part of MS-DOS 5.0 through MS-DOS 6.22 (and NOT part of IBM-DOS
>> 5.x, they still included BASICA (GWBasic equivalent of MS-DOS, as all
>> IBM PCs still had BASIC in ROM).
> Actually, IBM DOS 5.x included both; I've checked the system disks.
>
> It's rebadged as "IBM DOS QBASIC" and has an IBM copyright instead of the
> Microsoft one, but is otherwise identical to Microsoft QBASIC 1.0.
>
Well, wasn't 100% sure, I just know that they with the advent of OS/2 
started to switch to REXX as their "go to interpreter"...
And can't check with my sets of old DOS versions until I get back to my 
storage this weekend...

Ralf

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