Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!stevel From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: TrueBASIC (was Re: EZ-DOS, MS-DOS compatible OS) Message-ID: <14980@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 11 Aug 89 18:16:29 GMT References: <89219.160638ODX@PSUVM> <1617@bucket.UUCP> Reply-To: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 13 In article <1617@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: >...TRUEBasic is supposed to be fully compatible with the latest ANSI >standard for BASIC. In other words, it is not *remotely* compatible >with GW-BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, Turbo BASIC, or any other PC BASIC. ... Whoa, I thought that Turbo BASIC and Microsoft's QuickBasic were ANSI, or ANSI-like. True BASIC is NOT like the old (PC or GW) BASIC. Thank goodness. They do include a "converter" that might be useful in changing PC-BASIC to True BASIC. Disclaimer: I know people who used to work for True BASIC. Steve Ligett steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or (decvax harvard linus true)!dartvax!steve.ligett