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raverbashing 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Sourcing DOS 4

True, I don't know when Qbasic (and Edit?) went into dos (according to Wikipedia they were on 5.0)

dlachausse 32 days ago [–]

DOS 5 was when I really got into computers. I spent hours pouring through the included manual learning all the shell commands and learning how to write .BAT files. Then I discovered QBasic and it changed everything.

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