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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Making Apple ][ Future
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Date: 13 Feb 89 22:05:04 GMT
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jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes:
> c) an incomplete OS, I am not impressed with GS/OS because it does not
>recognize 5.25's, repeatedly crashes, and does not support Appletalk (I
>believe I need System3.2 to get the Appletalk routines) i.e. GS/OS, and no
>Prodos16 yet, properly addresses the dual nature of the gs, 8-bit and 16-bit.

Beg pardon?  My 5.25" disk drive works with GS/OS.  The OS hasn't crashed on
me.  (Not that there aren't cases where it will.)  No ProDOS 16?  That's a bit
confusing.  See, GS/OS is the 16-bit version of ProDOS 16.  In other words,
the previous ProDOS 16 was very 8-bit in operation.

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