Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

On 18 May 1999 05:33:57 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

:* In an interview with one of the major Apple II magazines in
:the 1980s, Wozniak revealed that ProDOS for the IIe booted
:into the low res 40 column text mode to make it look "less
:business-like" because Steve Jobs didn't want it to compete
:with his baby, the Apple III.  The III flopped.  Jobs then pushed

And here I always thought it was because 80 columns was an option on //e's
and Apple didn't support it on ][s and ][ pluses, which ProDOS was made to
run on as well.
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