Re: Apple ///?

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>In article <5igjah$teu@uni.library.ucla.edu>,  <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>How does the Apple III access more than 64K without bank
>>switching?  It uses a mere 6502B with a 16 bit memory
>>address.
>
>   It apparently doesn't switch full banks but lets you swap out
>part(s?)  of main memory for some section of the extended memory.
>Basically a far more intelligent, intuitive, easier to use, and
>intelligent design than the 'bank switching' hacks of the //c and //e.
>
>   The Apple III had a bunch of far better designed sections than the
>later //e and such, but Apple got the wrong idea into their head that
>the III's failure was due to its extra features [and not stuff like
>hardware more flakey than the day-old bin at a pastry shop, and making
>life difficult for programmers and users who wanted to do Apple II
>stuff], so they made the //e not that much more than the ][+.
>
>   If they'd put the good features of the III in the //e, without
>sacrificing stability, things would have been much nicer. They were
>already doing custom VLSIs for the MMU and the like, and it could
>have been done.

Interesting.  I knew the III was a good computer, but I read that
SOS and BOS are superior to ProDOS 8.

What are the specifications of SOS and BOS?

-Scott G.