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- From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity (was Re: Where does ProDOS come from?)
- Message-ID: <mattd-110992165114@city-lights.apple.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 23:50:01 GMT
- References: <lali4dINNol9@news.bbn.com> <mattd-080992120746@city-lights.apple.com> <2758@news.cerf.net> <1992Sep10.190124.2225@cci632.cci.com>
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- Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep10.190124.2225@cci632.cci.com>, fjs@cci632.cci.com
- (Francis Schwalm) wrote:
- >
- > I'm gonna be completely blunt here. Whatever stupidity ever possessed apple
- > to release it that way? The idea behind the name ProDOS -8- is 8-bit, right?
- > So how come only the apple users who have a GS can get a hold of it? If you
- > don't have a GS you can't get it, EVEN THOUGH it was designed to be used by
- > the 8-bit apple ]['s. I hope apple has a whopper of an explanation...
- >
- > I'm gonna ask again: Can someone AT apple put ProDOS 2.0.1 on ftp.apple.com
- > for those of us who have trouble fitting an 800K disk in a 140K floppy.
- >
- Gosh, and after being so polite to Apple too, how could Apple refuse,
- considering all this stuff, including ftp.apple.com, is done by people
- on their own time and is not an official distribution method.
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