This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the many features of the ProDOS 8 and Apple GS/OS operating systems, and presents sophisticated techniques for experienced assembly language programmers. Covers information on GS/OS, the new operating system for the Apple IIGS.

This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

Reviews How Apple Operating Systems Work & How to Utilize Them in Programming & Operating the Apple IIe

Discusses the features and architecture of the 6500 series of microprocessors and offers guidance on writing programs for computers using these microprocessors