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Subject: Re: //e, //c, //gs Questions From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) Date: Fri, Oct 23, 1998 23�2 � Message-id: <1dhexx1.a0bqvw14p8t1cN@dempson.actrix.gen.nz> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote: > Apple II+ can run DOS 3.3 and up to ProDOS 1.0.1. A 64K ][+ can run ProDOS-8 versions up to 1.9, or up to 2.0.3 if you have a ZIP chip (or some other 65C02 compatible with the II+). A 48K ][+ can only run ProDOS 1.0 or 1.0.1, since later versions require the language card. Even in ProDOS 1.0.x, there are few applications that will operate with only 48 KB of RAM. I believe the FILER program worked, but BASIC.SYSTEM definitely doesn't. > The Apple IIe could run all the operating systems of the II+, > but with the 128k that it normally shipped with plus its > improved capabilities, the IIe can run ProDOS up to ProDOS 8 > version 2.0.4, the latest version. 2.0.3, unless you know something I don't. :-) > It could also use CP/M with a coprocessor card for running old > Kaypro/Osborn and other pre-MSDOS business software (did you know > that dBase and WordPerfect were around before the IBM PC?). Turbo Pascal was also available on CP/M, though I don't think it predated the PC. I used version 2.2 for several years on CP/M (not an an Apple II). > It could also run MS-DOS and an early version of Windows with a > coprocessor card called the PC Transporter. The PC Transporter works in the ][+ as well as the IIe, but some capabilities are severely limited to due to the lack of a full ASCII keyboard on the ][+. I think you have to connect a genuine PC keyboard to it. The same might apply to some CP/M cards (though no keyboard connection option - a software workaround is more likely). -- David Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand