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From: geoff@burl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Including DOS in marketable products
Message-ID: <1367@burl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 11:26:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.1367
Posted: Tue Jul 15 11:26:24 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jul-86 03:47:40 EDT
Reply-To: geoff@burl.UUCP (geoff)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Does anyone have any experience in including DOS in a product?  I have
seen stand-alone disks that boot the Apple, load themselves, and go.
I assume they have a copy of DOS on the disk to load the program and
to do any kind of disk read/write the program might need.  Is this
licensed through Apple?  How much does it cost?  I have a program
that runs under DOS 3.3 right now, but I may move it to ProDos later.
Currently, the user has to boot up (the correct version of) DOS, then
BRUN the program.  Since I will have two separate programs on the disk
I can't get around the BRUN, but I would at least like to guarantee that
the user has the right version of DOS.

Thanks for your help,

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