Re: BBS software - ACOS / MACOS?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Bill Garber wrote:
> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message kPKdneocReBX9_XVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com">news:kPKdneocReBX9_XVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
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> > a2aviator@gmail.com wrote:

> > > I had a lot of stuff invested in the DOS 3.3 version of ACOS too, and
> > > time spent on modifying - upgrades and moved new drivers over from the
> > > ProDOS releases. I hung on hard and long to the DOS 3.3 side of things
> > > until about a year after the IIgs came out.
> > >
> > > One day, someone came over and noticed that my hard drive booted into
> > > ProDOS.. yup. I copied all the stuff off the 400K volumes and
> > > repartitioned the thing. Swapped over hard. Couldn't handle dealing
> > > with ShrinkIt files that had to be broken up to fit on floppies to
> > > move them, any longer. Too much hassle. That was it. Done.
> >
> > Yes, DOS was pretty close to heaven for 140K floppies, but as
> > capacity went up to 800K and then to hard drives, ProDOS was the
> > only practical approach.
>
> And knowing this they even gave us conversion programs for those 
> DOS programs that could be converted, is this not correct? 

Sure did--as they had with DOS 3.2 --> DOS 3.3 earlier.

I never had any problem getting what I wanted to ProDOS, and
since I was never a game player, I hardly missed DOS once I
moved over.

-michael

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