GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq. It is otherwise identical to Microsoft and IBM BASICA, but it is a fully self-contained executable and does not need the ROM BASIC that BASICA relied on. It was bundled with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC compatibles by Microsoft. The Programming Language Database dates it to 1983, names Microsoft as the place of its early development, and lists IBM BASICA, QBasic, MSX BASIC, QuickBASIC, MBASIC and Dartmouth BASIC among its related languages.
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1. Programming Language Database (PLDB): GW-BASIC
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GW-BASIC is a programming language created in 1983.
GW-BASIC (Wikipedia)
In Field: Programming Language Theory, Introduction
GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA.
Licensed Under: MIT License, Introduction
Microsoft released the 8088 assembler source code for GW-BASIC 1.0 on GitHub under the MIT License.
Influenced By: BASIC, Introduction
GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA.
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