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Re: ProDOS 2.x

In article jeff.brielmaier@yob.com (Jeff Brielmaier) writes...
> 
>Well, I don't have a copy v2.0 but I do have copies of v2.0d6 (26-Jul-91) and
>v2.0d10 (14-Oct-91).  These were received from Apple (under a non-disclosure
>agreement) so I know that they are 'real'.

	No doubt you do, but those were internal alpha versions, never
publically released. There has never been an offical ProDOS 8 v2.0
distributed by Apple Computer.

>In fact, here is my collection of ProDOS-8 versions:
>
[snip] 
>PRODOS20.D6     SYS      35  26-JUL-91 17:30  26-JUL-91 17:30    17128
>PRODOS20.D10    SYS      35  14-OCT-91 14:09  19-AUG-91 15:31    17128

	I did a bit of searching and found that bogus version 2.0.
In uppercase it is labeled "PRODOS 8 V2.0 / 1-MAR-90" on the splash
screen. The creation date is August 5, 1989 (10:24pm) and it is 16K 
in size. This is definately a fake version which at minimum is an older
v1.x which was sector-edited, though there's a slight chance a virus
is hidden inside (at least this was the rumour going around some 6
years ago).

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Mitchell Spector
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