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From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //GS questions, comments...
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 18:09:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 21 18:09:09 1987
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Summary: //gs help...


Jack,

The Apple tech manuals are not out yet.  For a good all purpose manual
try the Apple //gs Technical Reference by Fischer, published by McGraw-
Hill.  It will help you with the monitor commands and explain a few other
things as well.  
The slot numbers change on your drives because Prodos is set up to have
two drives per slot.  Although the drives don't use slot 2, they are named
for slot two because that's where some extra names are located.  Prodos
16 won't be this limited, when the final version is out.  You can boot
from your Ram disk but the file PRODOS must be in it along with a program
of type SYS with a name ending in .SYSTEM (this is for Prodos 8).  The
Fischer book will explain more about the boot process for Prodos 8 and 
Prodos 16.
There are two Pascals that I know of for the new features of the //gs,
TML Pascal and Kyan Pascal.  They are advertised in  A+ and other Apple
magazines.  Apple is working on a C compiler, but production versions 
are not available yet.  Some of the compilers require APW, the Apple 
Programmers Workshop.  This is a development environment that includes a
65816 assembler and linker.  The linker and assembler are needed for some
of these systems, check before you buy.

Rick Fincher
ranger@ecsvax