I emailed this question to 3 people so far and well no one has heard of it so I'm posting about it here. Maybe someone knows about this.
I bought a book 2 days ago, Learn BASIC Now made in 1989 by Microsoft Press. It has disks that came with it (5 1/4 disks anyone remember those?) and on that disk was something called The QuickBASIC Interpreter version 1.00 copyrighted 1988. Off hand it looks like QuickBASIC Interpreter (much like QBaisc 1.0 and 1.1 doesn't accept include statements like QBasic 1.0 and 1.1 don't allow either. It seems to come with the complete QB Advisor in the distro no compiler, really just an interpreter.
Has anyone else ever seen this? I thought I've seen all versions of QB and QBasic all the way to the PDS and VB-DOS 1.0 standard and professional. So this came as a complete surprise to me. I'm not mistaken however, QBasic says Microsoft QBasic version 1.0 or 1.1 when you go to the about box. This one is called QBI.EXE and says QuickBASIC Interpreter version 1.00 in the about box.
Hope I'm not the first one to hear about this. lol.
Let me know what you know if you know.
