47 points | by mmphosis a day ago ago
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Linked from that page is this very nice description of how the Apple 2 disk operating system was written. In 7 weeks, on punch cards and paper tape!
https://computerhistory.org/blog/apple-ii-dos-source-code/
Today I learned that, like Windows NT, the first version of Apple DOS was numbered 3.1.
Steve Wozniak did DOS 3.3 for the Apple // and the SOS for the Apple ///. He open-sourced a lot of his work for others to learn from.
DOS 3.3 was mostly Shepardson Microsystems Paul Laughton and Randy Wigginton from Apple. Woz supplied the RWTS routines for reading / writing sectors.
Linked from that page is this very nice description of how the Apple 2 disk operating system was written. In 7 weeks, on punch cards and paper tape!
https://computerhistory.org/blog/apple-ii-dos-source-code/
Today I learned that, like Windows NT, the first version of Apple DOS was numbered 3.1.
Steve Wozniak did DOS 3.3 for the Apple // and the SOS for the Apple ///. He open-sourced a lot of his work for others to learn from.
DOS 3.3 was mostly Shepardson Microsystems Paul Laughton and Randy Wigginton from Apple. Woz supplied the RWTS routines for reading / writing sectors.