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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
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Subject: Re: BASIC
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 15:28:07 EST
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> >I do all my development using the IBM BASIC Compiler v2.0.
> >
> >Global and local variables, common variable areas, callable subprograms, no
> >line numbers, and many other things make this a real language.
> 
> This does indeed sound like something that you can actually program with.
> But your code is not at all portable, and you've cut yourself off from
> a potentially much larger, and more interesting market.  (Of course, that's
> your choice to make, to concentrate on the IBM PC market.)

Well, my hope is that someday Microsoft will release a XENIX version of this
compiler.  I do 85% of my work for the PC market and I haven't learned C yet,
so this seems a reasonable solution.  (I just heard that dBase III has been
release for minis and mainframes, so I may look into that, but that is only
for really simple things.)  Microsoft has an ancient MBASIC and BASCOM for
the Altos 586, but I don't know who did the port.  Perhaps Altos will port
the new BASCOM/QuickBASIC for them...

If anyone has any info or rumors about this, please pass them along to me!

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