Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!madison!elliott From: elliott@madison.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: DOS/ProDOS Message-ID: <11317@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 22 Jun 88 15:38:58 GMT References:<8806200344.aa10165@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> <9644@reed.UUCP> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: elliott@madison.steinmetz.ge.com () Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 29 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! . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Jim Elliott / ...!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crd!elliott / "Don't look, son, it's / Jim_Elliott%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu [school] a secular humanist!" / (or) elliott@ge-crd.arpa [work] . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . .