Re: Great news from Apple Computer themselves regarding manuals

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

RON EVRY <revry@shell.clark.net> wrote:

> Does Apple's permission extend to the infamous 1978 "Red Book"?

Infamous?  Famous, I'd say.

> This contained the ROM listing for the Apple IIe, the one and only time
> Apple ever allowed something like that to be published....

Considering that the Red Book was published four years before the IIe
was manufactured, this would be quite an achievement.

In any case, this statement is completely wrong.

1. The Red Book may contain firmware listings for the original Apple II
monitor ROM and Integer BASIC.

2. Subsequent manuals for the II+ and IIe include firmware listings for
the machine in question, except that there is no listing of Applesoft
BASIC published anywhere.

Both the original and enhanced versions of the IIe firmware have been
published, either as a separate booklet that went with the original IIe
firmware reference, or included in a later edition.

3. The original IIc firmware reference manual has the IIc firmware
listing (again without Applesoft) for the UniDisk 3.5 version of the
firmware, but the 2nd edition has no firmware listing.

I don't know if the memory expansion IIc firmware listing was published,
and I'm sure that no such listing was released for the IIc+ or IIgs
(even in part).

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David Empson
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