Re: DOS 5 and QBasic

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From: Fred Freeland
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:18

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In article <33680004@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) writes:
>
>As for purchasing QuickBasic you might wish to wait till "VB DOS" is out
>(very shortly???).  If VB DOS has 1/2 the video mode & mouse support that
>VB has access to it would be an improvement (just my opinion- no flames
>please!)...  It will be interesting to see how they do this as VB gets most
>of this support "built-in" from Windows anyway.
>
There seems to be some serious confusion about what Visual Basic for MS-DOS
is and what it's capabilities are. It is not a DOS-based solution to writing
Microsoft Windows programs. Most programs developed with VB/DOS are character-
mode applications that look essentially like VB/DOS itself, in that they
can have windows, menus, mouse-support, etc. The model for VB/DOS is much
like that of VB/Win except that they are for development in different
environments. That means that code you write in VB/DOS can be easily ported
to VB/Win and vice versa. Of course, one advantage VB/DOS has over VB/Win
is that it still has all the DOS interrupt access that BC 7.1 had so you
can muck around with the system all you want. And you can write graphics-mode
program in VB/DOS but they certainly will not look or act like real Microsoft
Windows applications.

Just wanted to make the distinction clear.


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Subject: Re: DOS 5 and QBasic
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