How can I exit Microsoft GW-BASIC, IBM BASICA, or other similar old dialects of BASIC?

Question

Microsoft BASIC, GW-BASIC and BASICA all use a prompt that looks like this:

I can\'t figure out how to exit any of these. Typing END does not e

Answer 1

According to the manual linked by paulsm4, CTRL-BREAK while output is being redirected will exit BASIC. It also says the SHELL command returns to the MS-DOS command shell. (On the original IBM PC, the BASIC was in ROM, and therefore always resident in memory.)