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Episode 105 - Apple's Growing Pains

Advent of Computing

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The Apple 2's Hardware Architecture

The Apple 2 had special slots for expansion cards. Cards could only bring along 256 bytes of code, which is an annoying limit to deal with. SOS gets around this issue via driver files. Each peripheral on the computer was controlled via a driver.

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