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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ProDOS v1.9
Message-ID: <3921@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 89 17:43:31 GMT
References: <8909070837.AA12730@trout.nosc.mil> <1572@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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>In article <8909070837.AA12730@trout.nosc.mil>, markl@pro-generic.cts.com (Mark Leumanne) writes:
>> Network Comment: to #4363 by dlyons@apple.com
>> 
>> I think I confused alot of people, what  I was saying is, just to make it so
>> that ProDOS's Bye, would be also be able to run Basic etc. files, you know,
>> when you type 'BYE' all you can run from there is System files, which is not
>> good, maybe I am mixing BASIC.SYSTEM with ProDOS, if so, whatever it is,
>> doesn't anyone agree that All file types (that are 'Run-able') should be able
>> to be accessed by the BYE?  
>> 

One of the big advantages that the prodos system offers is that on small 
disks (5 1/4, 64K ramdisks) you don't need to waste space with parts
of the operating system you won't be using.  This frees up over 25K
per disk I believe.  If you're not going to boot from the disk you
don't need Prodos, if you're not going to use basic on the disk you don't
waste the space.

Under DOS 3.3 if you wanted the extra space on the disk and decided not
to boot from it in order to eke out those extra few sectors you ran a
special program for it.  In Prodos you just:

DELETE PRODOS
DELETE BASIC.SYSTEM

Providing you with a disk with 273 blocks / 136.5 K available.
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