>>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. Yes, you are right. What they are talking about is that some older computers had a ROM chip that would boot an OS up and start a Basic editor. A more modern example would be booting to a floppy that had GWBASIC load automaticlly at startup (in the Autoexec.bat for example). HTH, Donald Gaither Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html