Re: Apple II Csa2 FAQs Applications

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supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>
>>GS/OS- Originally called "ProDOS 16", today's installed GS/OS will
>>usually be System 5.04 or System 6.0.1. System 5.04 is appropriate for
>>1MB or smaller non-hard disk GS's. System 6.0.1 is recommended for
>>larger memory GS's with a hard disk. GS/OS is the desktop, Windows-like
>>environment utilizing super-res displays. Both ProDOS 8 programs and 'GS
>>Applications' (i.e. wares that need GS/OS to run) can be started from
>>the desktop. The program which runs the desktop is usually called the
>>"Finder".
>
>According to Apple and A+ magazine, ProDOS 16 was a completely
>separate operating system from GS/OS.  ProDOS 16 was a 16-bit
>shell on top of the same old ProDOS 8 core.  It was 8-bit at heart.
>GS/OS was a clean slate and pure 16-bit OS.

As far as i recall, ProDOS-16 was a 16-bit version of the ProDOS
kernel (though i don't doubt that it still contained a lot of 8-bit
code) and included, amongst other things, memory management beyond
128k.  ProDOS-8 was spawned as an application under ProDOS-16 not much
differently than is is under the GS/OS kernel.

And the GS/OS desktop is Mac-like--not Windows-like.
Very very different!!  :)