Re: help what in the hell is a Apple III

[mfumu@alphalink.com.au (Bill Robbins)]

In article <37F0BBD0.D3EB1EA5@email.com>, antares <antares@email.com> wrote:

>It did introduce some important things which became standards in the
Apple II world, and indeed in the computing world generally. First, it
introduced the concept of software "drivers" for peripherals: with the
right driver you could
>use practically any kind of device. Second, the SOS operating system was
what became ProDOS. Finally, the program "Three Easy Pieces" later became
the original "AppleWorks", IMHO the finest single computer program ever
written for any
>computer. Imagine a good word processor with spell check, a powerful
spreadsheet and a functional flat-file database all on one 800K disk, with
room left over for document files! No fancy fonts or page layout, but in
combination with
>Publish It! 4.0, almost anything was possible. Too, it introduced the
Profile hard drive system. I have a 5MB Profile which cost nearly $4000
when new in 1981. Amazing how things change over time.

- ProDOS is actually a SUBset of SOS, means the old one was actually more
powerful.
- Have you checked out AppleWorks 5.  Things are no longer quite so flat.
-- 
Bill Robbins, mfumu@alphalink.com.au