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

Versions

Microsoft BASIC-80 Interpreter

• Rev. 4.51
• Rev. 5.0
• 1981: BASIC-80 Rev. 5.21
• 5.26
• 5.28

Microsoft BASIC-86 Interpreter

• 5.21
• 5.22

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

• 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