Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

Perhaps I should also remind you that, to me, CP/M was the OS I did

> my serious stuff on, on the Apple II.  I used Apple DOS mostly for
> playing games, and for poking around in the (6502 part of) the Apple
> II.  I readily admit that this gave me a negative bias against any
> "productivity package" on Apple DOS.  But this bias originated with
> some early negative experiences with Apple DOS: I once tried to
> create a data file (as a text file) on DOS 3.2.  I was forced to
> split up the file in two parts - why?  Because DOS 3.2 imposed an
> upper limit of 32000 bytes on any file - including text files !!!
>
> As soon as the SoftCard was released, I moved over to CP/M, where
> this stupid 32000 byte size limit didn't exist: there I could easily
> create data files spanning the entire free space of the disk.  And I
> could also choose if I wanted my data file to be a text file or a
> binary file.
>
> About a year later, I got DOS 3.3, where this stupid 32000 size
> limit had been removed -- but by then I had already moved on
> to CP/M for my serious stuff.

Appleworks was created as Three Easy Pieces on the Apple /// running under SOS.
Only after a truncated SOS moved to the Apple ][ (sometimes know as ProDOS) was
Three Easy Pieces released for the ][ under the title AppleWorks.

But, as you say, by then you had moved on to CP/M (and maybe by then MS-DOS, a
CP/M clone)

Roy