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Microsoft BASIC PDS

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Description

Aslo known as Basic PDS or "Microsoft Basic Professional Development System", it is a "professional version of Microsoft Basic that came with an optimising compiler, Programmer's Workbench (development environment, framework in IBM speak), Microsoft's M editor, Codeview debugger, and an extended set of libraries. Versions 7 and onward support OS/2.

Versions

  • Last known version: v7.1A - Has full OS/2 support
  • Version 7 released fall 1989 - Added ISAM support (Rudimentary database functions), support for OS/2 development was added as an "application note" that could be downloaded from Microsoft's BBS.

Publications

  • Peter G. Aitken: Microsoft Basic 7.1: A Programmer's Reference - 1991 - Wiley - ISBN 10: 047152901X ISBN 13: 9780471529019 - out of print

License

  • Commercial - Discontinued - Original RRP for Basic PDS 7 was USD 495.

Author

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