Re: Old Apple DOS (was Re: Apple IIc O/S)

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

   You didn't 'correct' David Empson.  David didn't say that the first
Apple DOS was 3.2.1; he just said he had never seen anything older.

   Sorry, no t-shirt this time.  ;-)

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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mark Percival wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 1999 03:55:41 +1200, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
> Empson) wrote:
> 
> >Actually, I would like to know about DOS 1 or 2.
> >
> >If the various Apple II history sources are correct, then the first
> >public version was DOS 3.0.  I've never seen anything older than 3.2.1,
> >however.
> 
> Here's a rarity, correcting David Empson.  There ought to be an "I
> Corrected David Empson" T-shirt awarded for something like this.
> <grin>
> 
> The first public version of Apple DOS was version 3.1.  The man who
> was contracted to write Apple DOS was Paul Laughton and he talks about
> the evolution of Apple DOS on his web page
> http://www.laughton.com/Apple/Apple.html