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Apple DOS Dead

Apple DOS
KindOperating system
Appeared1978
Ended1983
StatusDead
CreatorApple / Paul Laughton
FamilyIndependent
PlatformApple II
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

The Apple II's disk system — written in seven weeks, booted a million machines, replaced by ProDOS.

Succeeded by ProDOS
Ran on Apple II
Created by Paul Laughton

Apple DOS 3.x (1978) gave the Apple II its disk drive — written largely by Randy Wigginton from a contract with Shepardson Microsystems, it was fast, simple, and hacked on by every Apple II owner.\n\nDOS 3.3's 35-track, 16-sector format and RWTS routines became the standard a generation learned assembly against.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS