Re: ProDOS...

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Phoenyx wrote:

> As David Empson pointed out, there are a lot of problems involved with a
> project such as this. IMHO, the best you could expect would be an OS which
> is compatible with ProDos at the disk/file system level. Something similar
> to Geos.
>

Honestly? What I'd like to see is ProDOS expanded to a full SOS level. As
Apple wrote in the ProDOS Programmers Workbench, ProDOS is a subset of SOS.

But, there is another project that would also be interesting, and that is an 8
bit version of unix. I've noticed that there is such for the Commodore 64,
and, of course, the CoCo had OS/9, so why can't the II have a unix?

Roy

>
> I would enjoy working on such a system as a GPL project. I would also like
> to see it take advantage of some features like monochrome DHR and 128k
> memory environment, mouse etc. Possibly incorporating some limited
> multitasking for simple features like background printing. Well, I guess
> this sounds a lot like a GPL version of Geos after all. In this case
> though, I think some sort of native programming system should be it's
> first priority. Basic would be ok as long as it isn't some patches to
> Applesoft. I feel this is one reason Geos didn't catch on as well in the
> Apple II world. We are a bunch of hackers and a system without some means
> of programming it, no matter how cool it is, does not generate the same
> interests for most Apple II folks.
>
> --
>
> Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful
> or at least interesting.
>
> Phoenyx,
>
> Apple2 user since March 1984
>
> Links to Phoenyx's pages:
> preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2
> alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2