1. Microsoft Basic MS-BASIC A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC. EXE or BASICA. EXE interpreters. GWBASIC "Gee Whiz" incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4. 5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program
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