Microsoft BASIC

Mircosoft BASIC was a BASIC interpreter (and dialect).

Interpreters for CP/M operating systems are also called MBASIC. The compiler was named BASCOM.


 * List of OEM versions
 * Applesoft BASIC
 * 1977: Commodore BASIC
 * 1980: Tandy Color Computer Extended BASIC
 * 1982 Dragon Extended Basic

MBASIC
BASIC Interpreter

Versions

 * Microsoft BASIC-80 Interpreter
 * Rev. 4.51
 * Rev. 5.0
 * Sep 1980: 5.2
 * 1981: 5.21
 * 1982: 5.22
 * 1983: 5.26
 * 5.28
 * Microsoft BASIC-86 Interpreter
 * 5.21
 * 5.22
 * Microsoft BASIC for Apple Macintosh
 * 1984: 1.0
 * Nov 1984: 2.0
 * 2.1
 * Sep 1986: 3.0

BASCOM
This BASIC compiler was developed in 1981 for CP/M. IBM shipped a OEM version for the IBM PC. Similar to CBASIC a BASIC runtime system (BRUN or BASRUN) was required to execute the compiled programs.

Versions
Microsoft BASIC Compiler
 * Microsoft Business BASIC Compiler for MS-DOS
 * 1983, 1984 (BASCOMB)

Publications

 * Kenneth B. Knecht: Microsoft BASIC - Dilithium Press 1982, ISBN 0-88056-056-8
 * Walter A. Ettlin; Gregory Solberg: The MBASIC Handbook - Osborne/McGraw Hill 1983, ISBN 0-88134-102-9
 * Ettlin; Solberg: Microsoft BASIC Handbook - McGraw-Hill 1984, ISBN 0-07-881102-3
 * Lesser: Using the Microsoft Superscript Business Basic Compiler on the IBM Superscript PC - McGraw-Hill 1986, ISBN 0-07-037299-3