The Tandy 1000 was an MS-DOS clone. GWBASIC.EXE was a separate program that you ran at the DOS prompt, then you could start writing your program. You could pr

The Tandy 1000 was an MS-DOS clone. GWBASIC.EXE was a separate program that you ran at the DOS prompt, then you could start writing your program. You could probably also do something like GWBASIC <your program name>. But when I was a kid, that never felt like a "real" program. The real .EXE and .COM programs were compiled and ran straight from the DOS prompt, and I wanted one of those. You're right, I had friends with C-64s and Apples. For the C-64, BASIC was basically the whole "interface." Running a program involved running a BASIC LOAD command. Not so on the early DOS clones.