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RamDisks for ProDOS, documentation flamage, et all... [message #75951] Wed, 29 May 2013 20:00
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 05:44:00 EDT
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From:  "Donald E. Hopkins" 

Writing your own RAMDisk driver is quite simple under ProDOS.  The
ProDOS Technical Manual gives you all the documentation you need to
write and install all sorts of device drivers.  It's quite worth the
money at $25, and even comes with a disk with a program that lets you
play around with all of ProDOS calls.  On the other hand, Apple's $40
ProDOS upgrade kit, in my opinion, is not worth the money.  You get
one of those horribly obnoxious "Apple //e style" manuals with those
nasty flaps on the back cover whose only purpose is to get in the way,
a ProDOS User's disk, and a whole sheath of papers to sign and send
in.  The manual does nothing but document the self-documenting
programs that come on the ProDOS User's disk.  It doesn't say anything
about any of the BASIC.SYSTEM commands, or any of the nice features of
ProDOS.  (The BASIC.SYSTEM program is what is loaded in when you are
in Applesoft.  It's the BASIC/ProDOS interface, and supports most of
the DOS 3.3 commands, (except for things like INT, FP, MAXFILES,
etc...) plus a bunch of new ProDOS ones.  (like FLUSH, PREFIX, CAT,
etc...)) I object to the senseless slaughter off innocent trees that
goes on to publish that manual. I've heard that Apple has a ProDOS
BASIC Programmer's Reference manual out.  I haven't seen it, and I
don't know how much it costs, but I think that they should include it
with the ProDOS upgrade instead of the dreadful ProDOS User's Manual.
	-Don
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