Re: What is the latest version of ProDOS?

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <5fdefh$a2o$1@darla.visi.com> nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes:
>In article <5fcrn9$cie@pith.uoregon.edu>,
>Neil Parker <nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>For ProDOS 8 v1.9, try looking on ftp.info.apple.com in the directory
>>/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Apple_II/Apple_II_Supplemental
>>There's a file in there called Apple_II_System_Disk_3.2.bxy which (I believe)
>>contains ProDOS 8 v1.9.
>
>   Just checked the .txt file describing that disk; it claims that
>it's a Shrinkit'd 800K disk. If so, that's going to be unpackable on
>a vanilla //e or //c w/o an 800K drive. It'd be nice if Apple provided
>files in all sorts of archive formats, as disk space is dirt cheap
>nowadays. 

Yep...it is indeed a .SDK of an 800K disk.  I had forgotten about that.

In all fairness, Apple *did* have a reason for not making it a 140K disk--
there's too much stuff in it to fit on a 140K disk.  It's not far over the
140K limit (removing a single file would have made it fit), but it is over.

Still, it would have been better if they'd made it a file archive instead
of a disk archive.

             - Neil Parker
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