Re: BBS software - ACOS / MACOS?

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I agree with A2aviatior, there probably isn't enough money to justify 
any significant effort, but if it were opened up, we could all chip in 
our little pieces.

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Bill Garber wrote:
> > "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
> > kPKdneocReBX9_XVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com">news:kPKdneocReBX9_XVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >
> > > a2aviator@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > > I had a lot of stuff invested in the DOS 3.3 version of ACOS too, and
> > > > time spent on modifying - upgrades and moved new drivers over from the
> > > > ProDOS releases. I hung on hard and long to the DOS 3.3 side of things
> > > > until about a year after the IIgs came out.
> > > >
> > > > One day, someone came over and noticed that my hard drive booted into
> > > > ProDOS.. yup. I copied all the stuff off the 400K volumes and
> > > > repartitioned the thing. Swapped over hard. Couldn't handle dealing
> > > > with ShrinkIt files that had to be broken up to fit on floppies to
> > > > move them, any longer. Too much hassle. That was it. Done.
> > >
> > > Yes, DOS was pretty close to heaven for 140K floppies, but as
> > > capacity went up to 800K and then to hard drives, ProDOS was the
> > > only practical approach.
> >
> > And knowing this they even gave us conversion programs for those DOS 
> > programs that could be converted, is this not correct? 
>
> Sure did--as they had with DOS 3.2 --> DOS 3.3 earlier.
>
> I never had any problem getting what I wanted to ProDOS, and
> since I was never a game player, I hardly missed DOS once I
> moved over.
>
> -michael
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