[andsmi2]

I don't think these are lies. I think this speaks to the level of technical understanding by the author. He thought 64k. He was writing everything in qbasic-- so a spec like that wouldn't matter. These are some good things to accomplish with basic, but it made sense when you get to the end and understand he is baffled with an ide. The term dos "clone" is weird--- I think he meant a sort of shell written in qbasic. This is essentially a "script kiddy" stuck in the outback. Admirable use of his time. I am scared about the level of worship the comments on the page provide.

[metric10]

I think "script kiddy" is overly harsh. Script kiddies can't program, they just run other people's "scripts." He clearly had some aptitude, he just didn't have the books or the right environment to learn what he needed to truly excel.

[nzealand]

You must be right.

I learned to code in machine language, I was punching in hex codes into an Amiga, all from one reference manual. It was a painfully slow way to learn. With no IDE or other reference manuals, QBasic would be the only way to achieve any of this.