Microsoft GW-BASIC
Software theme
GW-BASIC & IBM BASICA are functionally identical except IBM's requires a ROM (Cassette), the other is self-contained, & GW-BASIC has a compiler option
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Alternate names: IBM Advanced BASIC, BASICA
DOS 1981
Documented 8088 assembly language source code for GW-BASIC was released by Microsoft on 2020-05-21 under the MIT license.
GW-BASIC was included with MS-DOS until superceeded by QBASIC with MS-DOS 5.0
The GWBASIC.EXE executable is named BASICA.EXE or some distrobutions. It is a bit perfect copy a GWBASIC.EXE file with a different name. (Therefore) BASICA.EXE is not IBM's BASICA.
GW-BASIC was included with MS-DOS until superceeded by QBASIC with MS-DOS 5.0
The GWBASIC.EXE executable is named BASICA.EXE or some distrobutions. It is a bit perfect copy a GWBASIC.EXE file with a different name. (Therefore) BASICA.EXE is not IBM's BASICA.
Parent groups
Assembly language, BASIC programming language, License: MIT / X11 / PFSL / ISC / Expat, Proprietary license, Programming languages
Games by year
The first Microsoft GW-BASIC video game was released in 1981.
Platforms
MS-DOS | 1 |
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