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From: trier@everest.scl.cwru.edu (Stephen Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is GW-BASIC included with DOS?
Summary: It depends on who sold you MS-DOS
Keywords: MS-DOS, GW-BASIC, bundled software
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.020708.27349@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 02:07:08 GMT
References: <1990Jan29.214354.18019@cec1.wustl.edu> <gDwZD7w160w@gendep>
Reply-To: trier@SCL.CWRU.Edu (Stephen Trier)
Organization: Smith Undergrad Lab, CWRU, Cleve. OH
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First, fcr@saturn.wustl.edu (Frank C. Robey X5569) wrote:
> Does GW-BASIC no longer come bundled with DOS?  I
> recently purchased MS/DOS 4.01 and I did not get
> BASIC with it.

Then, in article <gDwZD7w160w@gendep> someone else wrote:
>Funny, my copy of MS-DOS 4.01 included GW-BASIC on disk, though there
>was no accompanying manual...

It's up to each OEM to decide whether they want to pay the extra money
to bundle GW-BASIC with MS-DOS.  Some decide not to, and some can even
decide to add more.  My Packard-Bell came with a version of MASM as well
as GW-BASIC.  It's really up to the OEM, just like all of the other
customized commands they can include.  (VDISK.SYS or RAMDISK.SYS?)

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