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Re: ADTgs issues

Alex Freed wrote:

> Doing INIT from DOS 3.3 required some code to be resident in memory, i.e.
> take valuable space at all times.
> Nice but wastefull. Makes much more sense to load a program from the disk to
> do something that is not done every day.

Unfortunately even with that code removed, ProDOS is substantially
bigger than DOS 3.3

It always irked me that from that point on the low level format code
became something you had to license from Apple, rather than being
distributed in a form usable by third party applications.

Matt