Talk:Apple ProDOS

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The WPL+ bit seems a bit of a non-sequitur tacked on at the end like that. Nobody looking for information on WPL+ would think to look in an article on ProDOS. -- Jerry Kindall 12/18/2005 01:22 AM PST

In the "extermal links section" the link "ProDos Company – ProDos Company" points to a software company that is not related to the article, are they taking advantage of the high rank of the wikipedia article in google?


 * Yeah, it looks like it's not related; I pulled it. Jerry Kindall 22:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Unique feature of Apple OSes that debuted with either ProDOS or SOS isn't mentioned
Unlike Windows or Linux (that I have seen), ProDOS allowed you to move floppies around from drive to drive. If it couldn't find the volume it was looking for, it asked you to put that disk in. The equivalent would be for Windows to use paths like "MyDisk:" or Linux a path like "/media/MyDisk". It is strange that no OS that I know of outside Apple uses this simple idea that debuted in the early 1980's. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

ProDOS 8 version 2.4?
Is this real? Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange has an announcement for v2.4 of ProDOS 8, with the 30th anniversary of the Apple //gs, and we are nowhere near April 1st. Also, they have a downloadable image:

http://www.callapple.org/uncategorized/announcing-prodos-2-4-for-all-apple-ii-computers/

I was never an Apple 8-bit person but, um... is this valid? Should this trigger a rev of the page? I mean, working state: ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT, latest release, 2.4.0; YESTERDAY. That's... kind of lollertastic and awesome, really. XD

Solarbird (talk) 19:02, 16 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it's real, but unofficial (not from Apple). One of the main features is that it runs on Apple IIs without a 65C02 processor, unlike the final official Apple release. Also I assume the year mapping in the Thunderclock driver was updated: the Thunderclock does not report the full year, only the day of the week that the year starts on, and there was a mapping table in the OS to convert this to the year that started on that day, said table needing to be updated every few years. 23:08, 16 September 2016 (UTC)~


 * It appears that, while not from Apple, it's written by the original programmer, John Brooks, and thus does deserve to be listed here as the latest version. Also, it seems that it merges both ProDOS 8 (AKA ProDOS 1.x) and ProDOS 16 (AKA ProDOS 2.x) as this one system runs on both 8 and 16 bit Apple IIs. Version 2.4.2 is now the latest and can be downloaded here: https://prodos8.com/releases/prodos-242/ 73.181.232.230 (talk) 16:47, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Has a third-party source covered Brooks's continuation of ProDOS? --Damian Yerrick (talk) 01:00, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Update
Version 2.4 came out in 201668.192.236.179 (talk) 20:38, 17 January 2021 (UTC) (Sorry, but I am User:Eshaan011 but logged out)