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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
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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