Re: Applesoft Basic

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <cZC03.135$t3.25533@news21.ispnews.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>greg@apple2.com wrote:

>> Hmm, does an Apple III in IIe compatibility mode still use SOS as its disk
>> operating system and require its commands?

> Think about that for a second. Would it make any sense for the emulator
> to use the III's OS? It would hardly be emulation if you had to use SOS
> to run II software now would it.

No, it wouldn't, but then it would make any sense to write software in the
1990s that used 2 digit years, but such software was written anyway. 
(Actually, I can name a program that had Y2K-like problems when 1990 was
hit.)

Thank you for correcting me.  :-)

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