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Microsoft did not offer a generic version of MS-DOS until v3.20 in 1986; before then, all variants of the operating system were OEM versions. Depending on the OEM, BASIC was distributed as either BASICA.EXE or GWBASIC.EXE. The former should not be confused with IBM BASICA, which always came as a
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Hercules graphics and can only display graphics on that card through the use of third-party
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Microsoft BASIC implementations, was removed from BASIC-80 5.x and BASICA/GWBASIC.
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867:"GW-BASIC User's Guide"
698:Microsoft Binary Format
587:PLAY "edcdeeL2edfedL4c"
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2005:MS BASIC for Macintosh
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980:GW-BASIC User's Manual
800:Lorenzo, Mark (2017).
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483:structured programming
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