> That said, give me QuickBasic back in the terminal on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and now you’ve got my attention… There are already open source clones of Quick

> That said, give me QuickBasic back in the terminal on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and now you’ve got my attention… There are already open source clones of QuickBasic which provide what you want, plus a whole lot more, such as QB64 and FreeBASIC. While I'd love it were Microsoft to some day open source QuickBasic/QBasic/PDS/VB for DOS/etc, that would largely be of historical rather than practical benefit.