GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA. Functionally identical to BASICA, its BASIC interpreter...
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other. After licensing IBM Advanced BASIC (BASICA) to IBM, for example, Microsoft licensed the compatible GW-BASIC to makers of PC clones, and sold copies...
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intersecting lines (the PAINT statement in Compaq BASIC 1.13 works like in all later versions of BASICA/GW-BASIC: it uses the new fill algorithm and no stack)...
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Generally, MSX BASIC is designed to follow GW-BASIC, released the same year for IBM PCs and clones. During the creation of MSX BASIC, effort was made...
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Computer Games. DEC. "Vintage BASIC - Download". Archived version of GW-BASIC Microsoft Small Basic website Small Basic Computer Games website on computerscienceforkids...
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Fantasy football (association) .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language Global...
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BASIC versions, such as MSX BASIC and GW-BASIC, supported simple data types, loop cycles, and arrays. The following example is written for GW-BASIC,...
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Microsoft. QuickBASIC runs mainly on DOS, though there was also a short-lived version for the classic Mac OS. It is loosely based on GW-BASIC but adds user-defined...
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Microsoft Windows, macOS) A BASIC interpreter, written in Seed7, which is compatible to GW-BASIC and other old BASIC dialects Banna Basic (Microsoft Windows)...
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perhaps even of line-numbered BASIC in general." With the release of MS-DOS 5.0, GW-BASIC's place was taken by QBasic. MacBASIC featured a fully interactive...
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Line number (section BASIC)
the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2008-07-03. "Differences Between GW-BASIC and QBasic". 2003-05-12. Retrieved 2008-06-28. Programming Research Department...
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floating-point numbers which was used in Microsoft's BASIC languages, including MBASIC, GW-BASIC and QuickBASIC prior to version 4.00. There are two main versions...
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mathematics from Mithibai College, Vile Parle. He also wrote a few games in GW-BASIC and Pascal. He intended to become a software engineer which he later dropped...
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standards for the company's BASIC compiler line. "GW" in the name of the GW-BASIC dialect (first released 1983) of BASIC developed by Microsoft may have...
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unique to a particular platform. SmallBASIC is intended to support the same sorts of applications supported by GW-BASIC and QBasic on the IBM PC, with support...
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included without a linker as QBasic in later versions of MS-DOS, replacing GW-BASIC. QuickC is a lineal ancestor of Visual C++. The three Quick language implementations...
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and GW-BASIC all feature a PLAY statement which takes a string argument in the SMX format. The name "Music Macro Language" may originate with GW-BASIC, which...
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List of DOS commands (section BASIC and BASICA)
version had ROM-BASIC moved into the program code. Microsoft released GW-BASIC for machines with no ROM-BASIC. Some OEM releases had basic.com and basica...
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when the user entered the RUN command. It was otherwise similar to GW-BASIC and MSX BASIC in style and most features, although it lacked some of the multimedia...
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and upon decisions made by programming-language implementers. E.g., GW-BASIC's double-precision data type was the 64-bit MBF floating-point format. Double-precision...
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model, and upon decisions made by programming-language designers. E.g., GW-BASIC's single-precision data type was the 32-bit MBF floating-point format. Single...
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Dependabot GW-BASIC IronRuby IronPython JScript Microsoft Liquid Motion Microsoft BASIC, also licensed as: Altair BASIC AmigaBASIC Applesoft BASIC Commodore...
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found used and are still relevant for programmers using C, Pascal and GW-BASIC ISBN 978-1-55615-484-3 First edition (1993) ISBN 978-0-7356-1967-8 Second...
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version named GW-BASIC. We'll provide a BASIC sooner if you choose the Japanese adoption of GW BASIC." Hamada replied, "As I said, we want a BASIC that is compatible...
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CLS (command) (redirect from CLS (BASIC command))
BASIC written by Microsoft, BASICA and GW-BASIC, also have the CLS command as a BASIC keyword - as do various non-Microsoft implementations of BASIC such...
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hard disk (can be installed). The PC 5 was released with MS-DOS 2.11 and GW Basic 3.2. The PC 5 had 5× 8-bit PC BUS Slots. It has two motherboards. One contains...
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Do while loop (category Articles with example BASIC code)
(Factorial); end Factorial; Early BASICs (such as GW-BASIC) used the syntax WHILE/WEND. Modern BASICs such as PowerBASIC provide both WHILE/WEND and DO/LOOP structures...
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ago (1988-08-14) Introductory price 1,800 DEM Operating system MS-DOS 3.3, GW-BASIC, Microsoft Works CPU Siemens 8088 @ 4.77 to 9.54 MHz Memory 512 KB (expandable...
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Lawlor. "nasm x86 Assembly". Retrieved 2008-07-03. "Differences Between GW-BASIC and QBasic". Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Kent Pitman. "CLHS:...
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