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It was called SOS on the Apple ///, originally Sara's Operating System but officially Sophisticated Operating System. It was a very advanced OS for its time, most notably one of the first to include a useful driver model.

The SOS filesystem was reused for ProDOS (and later GS/OS as well), but a lot of the advanced features were removed for ProDOS due to wanting to fit into the smaller RAM of the Apple ][.



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