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And actually, QuickBasic came first. It's final release was v.4.5 in 1988. QBasic happened much later, 1991, as part of MS-DOS 5.0. It was considered to be a s
by teilo 8y ago
And actually, QuickBasic came first. It's final release was v.4.5 in 1988.
QBasic happened much later, 1991, as part of MS-DOS 5.0. It was considered to be a subset of QuickBasic.
So QuickBasic, as well as it's big brother, Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (which almost no one remembers), was essentially dead by the time QBasic was released.
I only ever used QuickBasic. I still have the manual. Can't make myself part with it.
- kxkkcllx 8y agoYou’re right. QuickBASIC was replaced with VisualBASIC for Applications (vba), v1.0 was for MS-DOS
- skissane 8y agoI think you are confusing Visual Basic with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The former is an independent programming language, the later is only for embedding into other applications (such as Microsoft Office). VBA is an embedded version of Visual Basic, it is missing a few features (most importantly the ability to compile to .EXE files). There was Visual Basic for Windows 1.0 and Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0. The UI frameworks were completely different – Windows was GUI, MS-DOS was character mode. The Windows versions continued on until VB6, before being replaced by the very different Visual Basic.NET. Visual Basic for MS-DOS was discontinued after 1.0.
- mondoshawan 8y agoI remember the PDS! I had it a stack of 3.5" floppies, and the last disk had a bad spot, so some of the framework was impossible to use because I couldn't install it. That being said, the QuickBasic line and the PDS were amazing -- even the PDS had reams of online documentation on how to use the tooling, straight from the IDE. I distinctly remember the days my Dad showed me the linker and the library managers. It was like magic: now I could re-use whole chunks of my programs in other programs. Totally world-changing for a little 12 year old kid on an IBM PS/2 Model 50.