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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
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## CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
Beneath Apple DOS is intended to serve as a companion to Apple's DOS Manual,
providing additional information for the advanced programmer or the novice Apple
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Beneath Apple DOS has been thoroughly researched and tested.
There were several reasons for writing Beneath Apple DOS:
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To show direct assembly language access to DOS.
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To help you to fix clobbered diskettes.
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To correct errors and omissions in the Apple documentation.
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To allow you to customize DOS to fit your needs.
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To provide complete information on diskette formatting.
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- To show direct assembly language access to DOS.
- To help you to fix clobbered diskettes.
- To correct errors and omissions in the Apple documentation.
- To allow you to customize DOS to fit your needs.
- To provide complete information on diskette formatting.
When Apple Computer Inc. introduced its Disk Operating System (DOS) version 3 in
1978 to support the new DISK II drive, very little documentation was provided.
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the documentation on DOS, apart from a few articles in APPLE user group
magazines and newsletters. This manual takes up where the Disk Operating System
Manual leaves off.
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Throughout this manual, discussion centers primarily on DOS version 3.3. The
reasons for this are that 3.3 was the most recent release of DOS at the time of
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also apply to other operating systems on the Apple II and Apple III. For
example, disk formatting at the track and sector level is, for the most part,
the same.
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