Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul W Brannan <pbranna AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
Reply-To: Paul W Brannan <pbranna AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Miscellaneous (was Re: ClosedDOS???)
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> Nope,it was IBM BASICA. The difference is that gwbasic was a line-oriented
> interactive thing - not bad for simple calculations,something like
> programmable calculator. qbasic has some stupid full-screen environment and
> does not run simple scripts by one <enter> as gwbasic did.

Actually you can use immediate mode in qbasic as well; you just have to
switch to a different window.

> No one will do something more complex with basic anyways.

Unless you're a little 8th grader like I was who didn't know any better.
:)