GWBasic<p><strong>GW-BASIC</strong> is a dialect of the programming language <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC" rel="noopener" target="_blank">BASIC</a> developed by Microsoft from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASICA" rel="noopener" target="_blank">BASICA</a>, originally for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Compaq</a>. It is otherwise identical to Microsoft/IBM BASICA, but is a fully self-contained executable. It was bundled with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS" rel="noopener" target="_blank">MS-DOS</a> operating systems on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" rel="noopener" target="_blank">IBM PC compatibles</a> by Microsoft. </p>