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Wow, wasn’t aware it originally ran on DOS, but it looks pretty cool. I may have to find a copy somewhere and play around with it.
by the_only_law 5y ago
Wow, wasn’t aware it originally ran on DOS, but it looks pretty cool. I may have to find a copy somewhere and play around with it.
- lproven 5y agoIt wasn't originally on DOS. VB 1.0 was released for Windows 3.0 in 1991; VB for DOS followed the next year, the same year that Windows 3.1 came out. MS bought in a graphical drag-and-drop forms designer called Ruby, written by Alan Cooper in 1987: https://computerhistory.org/profile/alan-cooper/ https://computerhistory.org/profile/alan-cooper/ It coupled this to its existing BASIC to create VB: http://www.ojodepez-fanzine.net/network/qbdl/history_of_visual_basic.html http://www.ojodepez-fanzine.net/network/qbdl/history_of_visu...