System Snoop
Volume Number: 4
Issue Number: 11
Column Tag: Basic School
System Snooping in MS QuickBasic 
By Dave Kelly, MacTutor Editorial Board
MS QuickBasic Arrives!!
It’s been a long wait (nearly a year and a half) but Microsoft has finally upgraded
their infamous compiler. The best part is that it has really improved!! Microsoft took
their interpreter which has always been an excellent product, and combined their
compiler to produce what they are calling a new product named QuickBASIC 1.0.
There are some major changes that have taken place and many things have
remained the same. The programming environment includes the same
“pretty-printing” editor (with some improvements) which was included in earlier
versions of the interpreter. There are still two versions of basic, the binary version
and decimal version. Programs written using earlier versions of MS BASIC still
function properly and in some cases they even work better. When you start listing all
of the changes you can easily see why Microsoft chose to call it version 1.0 instead of
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