Re: ProDOS/ProDOS-8

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In article <df23654@pro-applejacks.cts.com>, flash@pro-applejacks.cts.com (Glenn Koproske) writes:
> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
> 
>>>ProDOS-8 is the same as ProDOS....  just more recent...
>>
>>ProDOS 8 is not the same as ProDOS. ProDOS 8 is an operating system, and
>>ProDOS is a file system. ProDOS used to be an operating system, but that is
>>obsolete terminology.
> 
> I'm not buying this at all.
> 
Before the confusion overwhelms all of us, here are the facts:

- On boot disks for 8-Bit Apple IIs PRODOS is the file that contains the
  operating system
- On GS boot disks the file ProDOS is a small program which loads
  the GS operating system (contained in many different files) into
  memory
- Since the days of FST (file system translators) Prodos is also
  the name of the file system
- The file PRODOS on a 8-bit Apple II boot disk is the same as the
  file P8 in the System folder of a GS boot disk.

Any more questions?... ;)


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