[NTLK] ProDOS [WAS: "Re: [OT] WWDC 2015, any NTLKers there?"]

[Vladislav Korotnev]

It also has some really decent sound, that is a signature of the machine.

I love to sometimes run a couple of FTA demos on an emulator just to listen to the music :-)


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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Forrest <newtonphoenix at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> I love my Apple IIGS. Despite its flaws and shortcomings—compared to more modern machines, like no native Internet browser or native hard drive capabilities—I’d be loathe to part with it.
> It’s a great disappointment, like Dennis pointed out, that Apple didn’t do more with it.
> Thanks,
> --Forrest
> "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place."
> --Douglas Adams
>> On Jun 11, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Lord Groundhog <lordgroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ~~~ On 2015/06/10 01:54, Dennis Swaney at romad at mac.com wrote ~~~
>> 
>>> Christian,
>>> 
>>> ProDOS 8 was the OS for the Apple IIe/c computers; it replaced an OS that
>>> was just called Apple DOS. ProDOS originated from the Apple III OS which
>>> was called SOS (kinda fits given the problems of the Apple III). ProDOS 8
>>> was just a renaming to make a distinction between the 8-bit and 16-bit
>>> versions of ProDOS. ProDOS 16 was specifically for the Apple IIGS as an
>>> interim until GS/OS was released.
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dennis B. Swaney
>>> 
>>> "I think, therefore I Mac"
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Lord Groundhog <lordgroundhog at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ah, thanks for that.  I didn't own any Macs back in the days of Iie/c so I
>> hadn't come across ProDOS.  I'd heard others talk of System 7, System 8, and
>> so on, but didn't really start learning details of how Macs work until I got
>> my Pismo and I'd never heard of that one at all.
>> 
>> 
>> I still have much to learn.
>> 
>> Out of curiosity, would my Classic currently running system 8 run ProDOS and
>> would there be any point in doing that?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Funny thing, now that I look back.  In the '80s and '90s, when I had
>> conversations with friends who owned Macs, they seldom talked about their OS
>> or their applications in the abstract.  They told me about the amazing
>> things they could do on their Macs, not so much about the particulars of
>> what they had to do for it to work.  When I was curious how it could be so
>> easy, I had to ask.  For them, the point was that the computer was a tool
>> that did whatever was needed, well and with no fuss.
>> 
>> It was the same when I was away from my own machine and needed to use
>> theirs.  Read a disk I'd made on my peecee?  "My Mac can do that for you."
>> Open and edit files written in a peecee application?  "My Mac can do that."
>> Save those files so I can still use them on my (poor, benighted) peecee when
>> I get home?  "My Mac can do that."  And it could.
>> 
>> 
>> To me, that attitude, making computing less like farming with a horse-drawn
>> plough and more like using a modern tractor, may be one of Apple's most
>> important and long-lasting contributions to computing.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Shalom, 
>> 
>> Christian 
>> 
>> ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
>> 
>> ³Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a Newton.²
>>            -- ref.:  Arthur C. Clarke
>> 
>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzpdPJ7Zr4
>> (With thanks to Chod Lang)
>> http://tinyurl.com/29y2dl
>> http://www.diyplanner.com/node/3942
>> 
>> 
>> ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
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