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Ashok Bhiman <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:11:53 -0500
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>In the early days of personal computers, the BASIC Operating System (OS)
was
>supplied as the default OS in Read Only Memory (ROM) in chips on the
>motherboard.  When everybody started using DOS (Disk Operating System),
>hardly anybody used BASIC, and those who wanted to could use newer,
>improved versions, such as BASICA, GW-BASIC, QBASIC from

My understanding is that BASIC,BASICA etc. are languages and NOT OSes. Am I
right or wrong?

(Dr. Ashok Bhiman)
              M.D.

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