Re: Apple II GS

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20001220100837.07830.00006067@ng-fy1.aol.com>,
Carolphe <carolphe@aol.com> wrote:
 
> Someone just gave me a Apple II gs. It came with 4 drives and no
> manuals. Being a pc user owner I have no clue on how to set all
> these drives up...actually I am completely lost. I tried reading
> some info online but it is all greek to me.  Does this computer
> even use anything like windows or is it DOS only?
 
Windows and DOS is PC software, which runs on PC's only, not on
Apple II's.  Interestingly, though, Apple II had its own DOS,
Apple DOS, and I was running DOS 3.3 already back in 1980, some
8 years before MS-DOS 3.3 was released !!!  :-)
 
Few Apple IIgs users will run Apple DOS though, they'll prefer
the newer ProDOS.  And there was a GUI for the Apple IIgs too,
making it vaguely similar to early versions of Windows -- and
even more similar to early versions of the Apple Mac OS.
 
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