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The last version of QuickBASIC was version 4.5 (1988), although development of the Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) continued until its last release of version 7.1 in October 1990. [3] At the same time, the QuickBASIC packaging was silently changed so that the disks used the same compression used for BASIC PDS 7.1. [4]
QBasic was intended as a replacement for GW-BASIC.It was based on the earlier QuickBASIC 4.5 compiler but without QuickBASIC's compiler and linker elements. Version 1.0 was shipped together with MS-DOS 5.0 and higher, as well as Windows 95, Windows NT 3.x, and Windows NT 4.0.
Released in versions 1.0, 2.0. 3.0. 4.0, & 4.5. QuickBASIC 4.5 was released in 1988. The QuickBASIC 4.5 IDE includes an interpreter, syntax checking, debugging aids, and online help including a full language reference. Quite BASIC Web-based classic BASIC programming environment. No download or signup necessary. Introduced in 2006. [70]
QB64 (originally QB32) [1] is a self-hosting BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, designed to be compatible with Microsoft QBasic and QuickBASIC. QB64 is a transpiler to C++ , which is integrated with a C++ compiler to provide compilation via C++ code and GCC optimization.
QuickBASIC versions 4.0 and 4.5 use IEEE 754 floating-point variables by default, but (at least in version 4.5) there is a command-line option /MBF for the IDE and the compiler that switches from IEEE to MBF floating-point numbers, to support earlier-written programs that rely on details of the MBF data formats.
QuickC is one of three Microsoft programming languages with IDEs of this type marketed in the same period, the other two being QuickBasic [4] and QuickPascal. [5] [6] QuickBasic later gave rise to Visual Basic as well as being included without a linker as QBasic in later versions of MS-DOS, replacing GW-BASIC. QuickC is a lineal ancestor of ...
QuickBasic came before any of the QBasic things, which came with DOS and didn't compile (in the help file they encourage users to buy VB-DOS in order to compile QBasic programs - I remember reading that for the first time, even before I had internet access, and thinking "How crummy!").
While a lot of sites may host it and offer it for free download, there has been nothing from Microsoft disclaiming ownership of QuickBASIC (that e-mail doesn't count because it came via an intermediary). --coldacid 12:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)