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sir pball

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Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:32 AM Apr 2013

The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system

CNet has a great piece up on the history of Apple DOS, including the importance of having a disk drive (as opposed to a cassette) and the sheer brilliance of the other Steve in implementing that feature cheaply and changing the entire game forever.

link, apparently embedding doesn't work today and I didn't preview :
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57577597-37/the-untold-story-behind-apples-$13000-operating-system/

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The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system (Original Post) sir pball Apr 2013 OP
The link? suston96 Apr 2013 #1
Yes sir pball Apr 2013 #2
Fixed link. eppur_se_muova Apr 2013 #3
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