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Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I tried writing an "operating system" in QBasic. Yes, I was that ignorant and optimistic at the same time. I still have the code. Standard VESA driver, high resolutions. Wrote my own terrible scripting language. But it was fun doing that. These days I rarely find any programming fun. It's all tedious and dealing with middleware issues.