On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 00:30, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > "The last version of QuickBASIC was version 4.5 (1988), although development > of the Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) continued until > its > last release of version 7.1 in October 1990 (at the same time, the > QuickBASIC packaging was sliently changed so that the disks use the same > compression used for > BASIC PDS 7.1.. The PDS version of the IDE was called QuickBASIC Extended > (QBX). The successor to QuickBASIC and PDS was Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0, > provided > in Standard and Professional versions. Later versions of Visual Basic did not > include DOS versions, as Microsoft concentrated on Windows applications." > according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBASIC
I looked at that before I asked, but thanks; it was a much more helpful and instructive response than Steve Nickolas's cryptic and uninformative one. It doesn't resolve my questions, though. How will any version of a BASIC compiler help port a BASIC app to any C compiler? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
