Re: Prodos Vs. Dos 3.3

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>With 64K, ProDOS automatically takes
>advantage of the upper 16K (not all DOS 3.3 variants do that), which
>gives programmers extra RAM.

Yes, it uses it, but if you're programming in BASIC, it uses the
Language Card RAM in ADDITION to the area DOS 3.3 takes up.

>>I speculate that Prodos was
>>really concieved for hard drive mass storage with it's
>>directory/subdirectory file structure.

>   And what's the problem with that?

It makes ProDOS fatter, and there are still many situations where
ProDOS's extra features are unnecessary.
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