Re: ProDOS 8

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

David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 23, 10:32 pm, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just out of curiosity - I current have a ProDOS 8 disk that says 1.9
> > (BASIC.SYSTEM 1.1). Is this the latest version?
> 
> No. After 1.9 came 2.0.1, 2.0.2 & 2.0.3 (not 100% sure about 2,0,2).
> After BASIC.SYSTEM 1.1 came 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 & 1.5.
> 
> > Is there a place where I can learned about all the release detail?
> 
> The ProDOS Technical Notes number 23 (ProDOS versions up to 1.9) and
> number 24 (BASIC.SYSTEM up to 1.4.1) are available on the web (eg
> http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apple2/technotes/tn/pdos/TN.PDOS.023 ).
> 
> Unfortunately the final releases were not so documented.

Those copies are out of date. There were some later technical notes
published in May 1992, which go as far as ProDOS-8 2.0.1 and
BASIC.SYSTEM 1.5. That is still not quite complete, but it is more up to
date.

I'd have to dig out my IIgs and hunt through my archives to work out
where I got them, but my recollection is that I had a complete set of
technotes up to 1990, and a smaller set of updated files which I got
somewhat later, perhaps by downloading them from an Apple FTP server.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz