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From: Mandel@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA (Mark Mandel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: ProDOS vs. DOS 3.3
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Date: 16 Jun 88 12:15:00 GMT
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Doug Gwyn writes that there's no real problem:
    "Removable media will boot whatever OS they happen to contain. Fixed
     media are definitely better off with ProDOS."

That argument falls down when you try to pass data from one program to
another.  I have a decent spreadsheet which runs under ProDOS and can
save to file in ASCII format, but my comm software uses DOS 3.3.  If I
want to send a copy of a spreadsheet to another machine (which I have
wanted to do), I would have to convert it to DOS to use it:  NOT
convenient!