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You already had Turbo BASIC by then, what the OP is right about is QBASIC being freely available. In terms of commercial products, there were already a few to
by pjmlp 2mo ago
You already had Turbo BASIC by then, what the OP is right about is QBASIC being freely available.
In terms of commercial products, there were already a few to chose from, including the big brother Quick BASIC, which introduced its IDE in 1986.
QBASIC was a subset from QuickBASIC 4.5.