Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.0

Although Microsoft did not invent BASIC, their founding product was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair computer. The descendants below includes Microsoft's BASIC-80 (MBASIC), BASIC-86 (pre-GWBasic), BASIC for Mac, BASIC Compiler 86/88, Basic Compiler for Mac, and Professional Development System 7.x. IBM Personal Computer Basic Compiler, GW-BASIC, QuickBasic, and Visual Basic are listed separately.

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Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.x is the first version to include support for OS/2 1.x. It was also licensed and sold by IBM as IBM BASIC Compiler/2