Re: Apple model history?

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 12:57:50 +0900, Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net> wrote:

>From what I understand, ProDOS is a rewrite of the Apple III operating
>system SOS. Without the III (and therefore without ProDOS), the
>transition from floppies- to HD-based Apple II systems would have been
>more chaotic.

If they created SOS for the Apple III, what makes you think they
wouldn't have created it for the Apple II?

It isn't like there was something special about the Apple III hardware
that made designing the operating system a task that was specific to
only that machine.

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