Re: You people.

[Erick Wagner <wagnere@netcom.com>]

rkerman@brutus.bright.net (Rick Kerman) wrote:

>In Article<4gcuhu$o0p@maverick.tad.eds.com>,
><wagnere@netcom.com> writes:

>> FWIW, MS-DOS (although it has been continually enhanced) is based on
>> late_70s/early_80s work.  ProDOS 8 (for 8-bit machines) was introduced
>> around 1984. GS/OS (for 16-bit machines) is a product of the late 80s.

>FYI - ProDOS was derived from the ill-fated SOS (silly operating
>system, we called it) from the Apple 3, which was derived from
>an earlier work called Pascal.

Yep, don't disagree with you there.  ProDOS is a scaled down version of
the Sophisticated Operating System (SOS) to work in systems as small as
64K.  I also believe that elements of the UNIX file system were an
influence on the design of SOS.  So, ProDOS is a bit older than 1984 but
it is younger than CP/M which was a big influence on MS-DOS.

Erick