Re: Licensing, distributing Apple II system software, and IIcomputing

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 8rib6m$oag$1@merope.saaf.se, Paul Schlyter at
pausch@saafNOSPAM.se wrote on 10/5/00 9:45 AM:

>> True, except that DOS 3.3 System Master disks ship with an Applesoft BASIC
>> loader for use on original Apple ][ systems.  That code is owned in
>> part by Microsoft. :)
> 
> Why?  Was it written by Microsoft?  I don't think so -- it's a pretty
> trivial Applesoft Basic program.

No, actually, it's a copy of the Applesoft BASIC ROM on the floppy disk.
You're thinking of the HELLO program, which is something else entirely. :)


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