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From: elliott@madison.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: DOS/ProDOS
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Date: 22 Jun 88 15:38:58 GMT
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In article <9644@reed.UUCP> kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes:
>In article <8806200344.aa10165@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>>but a lot
>>of this "ProDOS is the ONLY way to go" chatter seems to be coming from
>>people who arrived (and bought their software) after 1985.
>Here here! Well said.

Well, I hardly fit that description; first, I write most of my
software, and don't buy much. Second, I've been programming apples
since the late 70s, and writing machine code since the ][+ I had in
Mexico. I've used DOS 3.2.1 and DOS 3.3, calling it by printing
Ctrl-Ds, calling RWTS directly, and the File Manager, with much help
from Beneath Apple DOS.

And I think ProDOS is the likely single best thing to happen to the
Apple software environment in the 1980s, and am extremely glad to have
it around. (I'm not suggesting anyone throw away their 3.3 software,
but I hope anyone planning to develop something will do it in ProDOS.
They will certainly make life nicer for themselves that way!)

Anyway, I am promising myself that this will be the LAST THING I SAY
ON THIS SUBJECT!
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