QuickBASIC
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Microsoft QuickBASIC (QB) was an entry level compiler and later a programming environment for IBM PC compatible machines running DOS. QBasic from MS-DOS or PC DOS versions 5.0 is a small subset of QuickBASIC missing all compiler features.
Versions
- DOS
- Aug 1985: QuickBASIC 1.00
- Jan 1986: QuickBASIC 1.01
- Feb 1986: QuickBASIC 1.02
- Aug 1986: QuickBASIC 2.00 - integrated editor, EGA graphics support
- Jan 1987: QuickBASIC 2.01
- Apr 1987: QuickBASIC 3.00 - integrated simple debugging features
- Oct 1987: QuickBASIC 4.00 - threaded p-code interpreter, inter-language calling
- Feb 1988: QuickBASIC 4.00a - only included with Microsoft Basic Compiler Version 6.00
- May 1988: QuickBASIC 4.00b - also included with Microsoft Basic Compiler Version 6.00b
- Oct 1988: QuickBASIC 4.50 - new help system
- Apple Macintosh
- 1988: QuickBASIC 1.00 for Macintosh - System 6 required
Publications
- Douglas Hergert: Microsoft QuickBasic - Microsoft Press 1987, ISBN 0-914845-99-3
- John Clark Craig: Microsoft QuickBasic Programmer's Toolbox - Microsoft Press 1988, ISBN 1-55615-127-6
- Kris Jamsa: Microsoft QuickBasic: Programmer's Quick Reference - Microsoft Press 1989, ISBN 1-55615-204-3
- Douglas Hergert: Microsoft QuickBasic (third edition) - Microsoft Press 1989, ISBN 1-55615-236-1
- Halvorson; Rygmyr: Learn Basic Now - Microsoft Press 1990, ISBN 1-55615-240-X
- Mitchell Waite: The Waite Group's Microsoft QuickBasic Bible - Microsoft Press 1990, ISBN 1-55615-262-0
- Ethan Winer: PC Magazine BASIC Techniques and Utilities - Ziff-Davis Press 1991, ISBN 1-56276-008-4
