Back in the early days of the PC, GW-BASIC was an important thing to have if you had a clone instead of an actual IBM. The IBM PC had BASIC in ROM, but the clo

Back in the early days of the PC, GW-BASIC was an important thing to have if you had a clone instead of an actual IBM. The IBM PC had BASIC in ROM, but the clones did not, so if you wanted to develop, or run some of the vastly available BASIC code, you needed GW-BASIC. https://www.ardent-tool.com/tech/ROM_BASIC.html https://www.ardent-tool.com/tech/ROM_BASIC.html I came across this Linux-based GW-BASIC implementation a while back, and it is awesome. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/pcbasic.1.html https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/pcbasic.1.ht...