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In my spare time, I have volunteered to develop some software for sale by my employer. Involves interface with fairly slow lab equipment and later reduction & display of data. Language must be BASIC for maintainability by users; target hardware is MS-DOS compatibles. I know from experience that I can develop in AmigaBasic and port easily to QuickBasic on the PC as long as I stay away from Amy's special features. (Can also work on short segments directly, running QBasic under Transformer!) BUT…the AmigaBasic editor is SO miserable and execution speed with large string arrays is SO poor, that, long term, I MUST have something better. I COULD buy a cheap PC-clone for home use; however, getting a better editor/compiler for Amy instead would ultimately give me applications which would run on both Amiga and MS-DOS. My question(s): which is easier, friendlier, faster, etc AC-Basic or True-Basic? Does either have an editor approaching TxEd's responsiveness? If I got ACBasic for the Amiga, I would probably continue to port to QuickBasic for MS-DOS; is this impractical for any reason? If I got TrueBasic, I would expect to use the same language on both machines; is TrueBasic truly compatible between Amiga and MS-DOS? What about serial and parallel port access, graphics, special libraries, use of extended RAM, etc for either or both? What about bugginess? Many thanks for any advice on this. Dick Darling