Microsoft BASIC PDS
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 (a development environment, or framework in IBM speak), Microsoft's M editor, Codeview debugger, and an extended set of libraries vis a vis the normal Basic version from Microsoft, which by the time PDS 7 hit the town was Quick Basic. Versions 7 and onward support OS/2.
Versions
- Last known version: v7.1A - Has full OS/2 support - 1990
- 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.