Re: three questions about //e

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:12:17 +1200, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:

>Nope - you can boot directly into ProDOS-8.
>
>ProDOS 1.0.x and 1.1.x only include a driver for the Thunderclock.
>
>ProDOS-8 1.2 added support for the IIgs, including a native clock
>driver.  The appropriate driver is moved into the language card area at
>boot time, according to the type of machine.
>
>The IIgs clock does provide the year, so there is no need to patch
>ProDOS-8 every seven years if you have a IIgs.

Cool. This also means, then that drivers can be written for clock
cards for the IIe that do provide the year so that those lucky users
can avoid the seven year patch problem.  That's good to know.

Thanks David.

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