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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.)
QuickBASIC was succeeded in 1991 by [[:Category:Visual Basic|Visual Basic]]. Despite being sold as part of the VB line of products, '''Visual Basic for DOS''' ('''VBDOS''') is actually a QuickBASIC compiler and can compile most (if not all) QB code unchanged. (It might help to think of VBDOS as "QuickBASIC plus [[wp:Text-based user interface#
It should be noted that while QuickBASIC is not 100% compatible with [[BASICA]] and [[:Category:GW-BASIC|GW-BASIC]] (the interpreters included with older versions of DOS), ''most'' BASICA/GW-BASIC commands work identically. (If a program is marked as working with GW-BASIC, there is a strong chance that it will work in QuickBASIC. The QuickBASIC help file includes a side-by-side comparison of incompatible features of the languages.)
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