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Re: 5.25" Disk



On 29 Apr 1997 20:26:17 GMT, dklugh@iwaynet.net wrote:

>I'm not sure what "OS overhead" is,

-A place to keep a list of the files on the disk
-The instructions on how to load the OS
-(Optional) The OS itself

>What other OSes are there for the Apple rather than the one in ROM?

The OSs (ProDOS, DOS 3.2, DOS 3.3, Pascal [Pascal for the Apple // is
a language AND an OS], CP/M, MS-DOS, OS-9, etc.) all come on disk.
Are you thinking of Applesoft BASIC?
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