Re: PDS 7.1 and VB for DOS

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From: chris biow
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:35

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In article <1992Sep11.170911.10425@microsoft.com> fredf@microsoft.com (Fred Freeland) writes:

>I don't know what you're reading into our press release.  Visual Basic
>for DOS still has virtually all of the important features of Basic PDS 7.1
>...

"virtually"? Could you elaborate on what features it does not 
have?

If it's just new reserved words, no problem. But if applications
cannot be easily ported, that's a big problem...

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