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Re: Apple //c Technical Reference Manual
In <44D03B78.FC5BF16E@buckeye-express.com> Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
> Eric Shepherd wrote:
>> Well, at least the hardcover calls it "ProDOS 8." :)
>
> I have in my hands the spiral-bound "ProDOS
> Technical Reference Manual" ISBN 0201177285 and
> the hardcover "ProDOS 8 Technical Reference
> Manual" ISBN 0201177579.
>
> The back cover of the latter says the following:
> "The ProDOS 8 Technical Reference Manual is
> identical in content to the previously published
> ProDOS Technical Reference Manual."
The workbench version mentioned earlier predates the spiral-bound
version you have. It was really a pre-release developer's reference for
ProDOS, only coverering ProDOS 1.0 (back when ProDOS only required 48KB
of RAM), and had a few errors and omissions.
I almost ended up with a copy of the workbench version years ago when I
ordered the ProDOS Technical Reference from my local Apple dealer. When
I picked it up I was a bit disappointed to find it was a loose leaf
manual with no folder included, and seemed to mention ProDOS 1.0 a lot (
this was around 1992). Shortly after I got home with it I received an
urgent call from the Apple dealer asking if I would return it. It turned
out they had ordered the wrong manual, and the workbench version I had
was priced much higher than the Addison Wesley version I was supposed to
have received and for which I had already paid. I was happy to return it
since the later book was much better, but I do wonder what happened to
the long-obsolete workbench copy the dealer returned to the distributor.
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