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From: tabn9@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: last version of prodos8?
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.232502.6838@news.iastate.edu>
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 23:25:02 GMT
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In article <51288@apple.Apple.COM>, shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes:
>In article <8438@crash.cts.com> aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) writes:
>
>>In-Reply-To: message from devernay@POLY.POLYTECHNIQUE.FR
>>
>>You will need at least 64k to run most ProDOS 8 files.  If you don't have
>>that much, then 1.0.1 is the only version you can run (except 1.0)
>
>Huh?  ProDOS 8 has always required 64k to run.  If you have a II+, then you
>will need the extra 16k language card to give you the 64k necessary to run
>P8.
>
>andy

Actually, I read that you can run the earliest ProDOS version (1.0.1) on a
48k system.  However, you cannot run the BASIC.SYSTEM interpreter with only
48k.  To run the BASIC interpreter, you will have to have the full 64k!


Tony Neyens, a student at Iowa State University
(TABN9@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU or TABN9@ISUVAX.BITNET)
