Re: WANTED: ProDOS Info

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <1993May11.193121.9514@wuecl.wustl.edu> flan@froggy.wustl.edu (Ian Flanigan) writes:
> 
> I'm looking for the latest version of ProDOS 8.  Can I FTP it?  Can I
> buy it?  What version is it?

The latest version is 2.0.2.  It requires a 65C02 processor.  Someone
else has posted a message about it already.  It is available from
Resource Central.

> Also, I'm looking for documentation on ProDOS.  I have "Beneath Apple
> ProDOS" by Don Worth and Peter Lechner (Quality Software, 1985), but
> they only talk of ProDOS 1.0.1.

Resource Central have bought all the remaining stocks of Quality
Software's books and software.  The last edition of the supplement to
Beneath Apple ProDOS covers the internals of ProDOS-8 versions 1.2 and
1.3, and has errata for the first (1984) and second (1985) printings of
Beneath Apple ProDOS.  I have the fourth printing (1988), which has
all errors corrected, but contains no information about versions of
ProDOS later than 1.0.1.

Apple has a series of ProDOS technical notes, which are available via
FTP from ftp.apple.com.  One of these technical notes describes the
changes, bug fixes and new features in each verson of ProDOS.

I'm pretty sure that QS is out of business now.  (Note: "Quality
Software" has nothing to do with "Quality Computers", the mail-order
firm.)
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David Empson                                                               
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