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'''QuickBASIC''' is a [[:Category:BASIC|BASIC]] compiler/interpreter for [[DOS]] and [[OS/2]], produced by [[Microsoft]] from 1985 through 1990. An [[:Category:Integrated Development Environments|IDE]] has been included with QuickBASIC since version 2.0.
The final product in the QuickBASIC line was '''QuickBASIC Extended 7.1''', also called '''Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1''' or '''QBX'''. (According to [[wp:QuickBASIC|Wikipedia's QuickBASIC entry]], the QBX IDE did not run under OS/2.)
It should be noted that while QuickBASIC is not 100% compatible with [[BASICA
==Macintosh==
A version of QuickBASIC was released for the [[Mac OS|Macintosh]], but it doesn't run on anything newer than System 7 (and even there has some limitations) and is therefore limited to [[wp:Motorola 68000 family|m68k]] machines. (For non-Mac users, this is somewhat similar to a Windows program being able to run under [[Windows]] 3.x and Win9x, but not WinNT.)
The Mac version was canceled after version 1.00, likely due to lack of sales.
==QBasic==
QBasic is an interpreter that
(Note that it is not correct to refer to QuickBASIC as QBasic -- Microsoft considers them to be two separate products.)
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