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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
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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