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by Nition 2987 days ago
My memory on this is super vague because this was way back in the mists of time, but I think some old versions of DOS used to have a BASIC interpreter built in, where you could just start writing BASIC code at the DOS prompt.
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QBasic was included in some of the later DOS versions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic

There were IBM PCs with BASIC in ROM.
Some versions of DOS had a QBasic interpreter included as a utility. I stumbled upon it by accident when I was about 10 years old.