Re: Help with Apple 2e

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19971123223600.RAA04853@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
Surfer8869 <surfer8869@aol.com> wrote:
>The //e uses ProDOS (by Bill Gates) or if earlier DOS 3.3 by the same author.

   Wrong on both counts. Gates and Microsoft had nothing to do with
Apple II DOS 3.3 (which has nothing in common with MS-DOS 3.3) or
ProDOS. [If they had something to do with it, they woulda remembered
to make both have some OS basics-- file copy commands from command
line, and let DOS 3.3 be user-extensible by external command programs;
ProDOS got that half right.]

>The //e was a good little machine because they have Applesoft Basic (also by
>Bill Gates)

   Correct here; Applesoft is a modified version of the MS Basic being
sold to 8-bit system developers in the late 70s. Thus, any idiots who
claim to have Apple IIs and are "microsoft free" have (1) ancient
Apple IIs with Integer Basic (by woz) only, (2) burned their own ROMs
after paranoidly rewriting stuff from scratch, or (3) are in serious
denial about a molehill they've made into a mountain.

Nathan Mates

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