Re: Pascal and DOS 3.3

[Steven Weyhrich <a2history@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:55:21 AM UTC-6, mmphosis wrote:
> > Is there anyone out there who was using an Apple II back when the Pascal
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> > System was first released?
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> Yes.
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> > The reason I ask, is it appears that Apple
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> > Pascal came out in 1979, and DOS 3.3, using the new disk controller ROMs
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> > and 16-sector disks, did not become available until a year later, in 1980.
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> > How did people who bought Apple Pascal manage?
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> There were 3 or 4 disks, I think I booted the Pascal0 disk, and then swapped
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> in the Pascal3 disk.
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> http://www.kdbarto.org/ucsd_pascal.html
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> > Was this when the BASICS
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> > pre-boot disk came out, along with Apple Pascal (to give people disk
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> > access
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> > to the "BASICS", Applesoft and Integer?)
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> Might have had to use the BASICS disk to pre-boot the Pascal0 disk, I don't
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> quite remember.
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> USCD Pascal seems to have had it's own file system.
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> http://ucsd-psystem-fs.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the reply!

I am looking to see if BASICS was included with the Language System, since that changed a users 13-sector disk controller to a 16-sector controller. DOS 3.2 still required 13-sector control to function, and if there was NOT a backward-compatible option, someone who bought the Language System would either have no access to his DOS 3.2 library, or would have to swap back in the old ROM chips on the disk controller.