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Early versions of MS-DOS and PC-DOS included a [[BASIC]] interpreter (basic.exe), followed by [[BASICA]], [[GW-BASIC]], and finally [[QuickBASIC#QBasic|QBasic]]. (QBasic wasn't installed by default under Windows 9x; it had to be copied from the install media.) There are compilers and/or interpreters for pretty much every programming language available for DOS. |
Early versions of MS-DOS and PC-DOS included a [[BASIC]] interpreter (basic.exe), followed by [[BASICA]], [[GW-BASIC]], and finally [[QuickBASIC#QBasic|QBasic]]. (QBasic wasn't installed by default under Windows 9x; it had to be copied from the install media.) There are compilers and/or interpreters for pretty much every programming language available for DOS. |
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Before the rise of MS-DOS, the term DOS was used for a specific case of '''OS''', one that was able to use a disk drive (as opposed to things like tapes and punch cards), thus "'''disk''' operating system". There have been a number of operating systems called "DOS", besides the ones discussed here, many of which are completely different systems. (For a fairly complete list, see [[wp:List of |
Before the rise of MS-DOS, the term DOS was used for a specific case of '''OS''', one that was able to use a disk drive (as opposed to things like tapes and punch cards), thus "'''disk''' operating system". There have been a number of operating systems called "DOS", besides the ones discussed here, many of which are completely different systems. (For a fairly complete list, see [[wp:List of disk operating systems|Wikipedia's list of disk operating systems]].) |