Apple ProDOS 16
The Apple ProDOS 16 is a disk operating system developed by Apple in 1986 especially for the Apple IIGS computer. ProDOS 16 has been publicly released on 6 September 1986. The ProDOS 16 was developed until version 1.6 released on 14 June 1988 and later was succeeded by Apple GS/OS.
Apple ProDOS 16 is a renamed version of Apple ProDOS 8 and was released as a temporary solution to support the 16-bit architecture used in Apple IIGS. Almost two years later Apple released a dedicated operating system for IIGS called GS/OS.
Today Apple ProDOS 16 is 35 years old!
Apple ProDOS 16 – General information
Overview
| Introduced | 6 September 1986 |
| System Requirements | Apple IIGS computer |
| Distribution | Floppy disk |
ProDOS Versions
| ProDOS Version | Release Date |
| ProDOS 16 1.0 | 6 September 1986 |
| ProDOS 16 1.1 | 2 December 1986 |
| ProDOS 16 1.3 | 1 May 1987 |
| ProDOS 16 1.6 | 14 June 1988 |
