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

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

On 1/28/2015 10:22 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Too much to quote here regarding BASIC interpreters and compilers, but one BASIC compiler I remember is
> Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System for DOS.
That's what I mentioned a couple of times, PDS 7.1 was the last version 
in the line of the QuickBasic compilers...
>
> I don't think this is available any more, it was closed-source proprietary, clearly not a candidate for inclusion in FreeDOS, but of historical interest.
>
> Microsoft quit DOS long ago and went to Visual BASIC for Windows, I've lost track of the current status of MS BASIC on Windows.
>
Actually after PDS and before Visual BASIC for Windows, there was Visual 
BASIC for DOS...

Ralf

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