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Re: Darn!!

In article <392214AA.571CFBCD@xs4all.nl>, Ruud Dingemans 
<rdingema@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Nevertheless, I'm getting less enthousiastic about ProDOS by the
> minute... No Copy command? Kidding. Even MS-DOS had that. Not to mention
> OS/8 for the PDP-8 and other much earlier os's...

Well, ProDOS is a completely memory based OS limited to running
generally in 64K (especially when it was first released).  A copy
command would have taken up more memory...memory that was already
in short supply to things like BASIC.SYSTEM.  This is also why
Apple included System Utilities with all the Apple II's they shipped
with ProDOS.

> I have heard it is possible to copy binaries using some 'Bload' and
> 'Bsave' procedure, but who knows this one?

I would have spelled it out in my e-mail to you, but I'd have to
sit down and go through it a couple of times before I could remember
it fully.

Greg B.
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