[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/7/2021 1:53 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-07, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Then again, Basic code examples might confuse Unix developers ...
> 
> Some of them might be aware of Basic.
> 
> Back in the later MS-DOS days, Microsoft used to ship a Basic
> interpreter for free with MS-DOS and (apparently some Windows versions):
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic

GW-Basic came with DOS 1-4 and QBasic with DOS 5-6 and early Windows I 
believe.

GW-Basic source code is now available at:
     https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC

> I've just discovered there's a version of Microsoft QuickBasic for Linux:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBASIC
> 
> which I did not know about.

I would still not expect many Linux people to know Basic.

And besides VMS Basic is somewhat different from MS Basic flavors.

Arne