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"ref": "1981, The Book of Apple Computer Software, The Book Company, page 93",
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"ref": "1981 May, John Sharp, “DOS Differences”, in HARDCORE - The Journal of the British Apple Systems User Group, volume 1, number 3, page 17",
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"ref": "1982 November, George V. Kinal, “\"One Oven Muffin\" Updated”, in Washington Apple Pi, volume 4, number 11, page 44",
"text": "It will run on a 48K APPLE 11+, after BRUNning Integer Basic-Disk from WAP Library disk 14 (which should be MUFFINed over to the DOS 3.3. disk on which this One-Oven program, as well as MUFFIN from your Master disk, have also been saved).",
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"ref": "1983, Apple Orchard, pages 13 and 92",
"text": "And LexiCom 2.0 requires no disk swapping or MUFFINing—it will work equally well with any version of Apple DOS.[…]Files may be MUFFINed to a 16 sector disk $29.95 from your local dealer or: Nibble, Dept P",
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"ref": "1983, Jeffrey Stanton, Robert P. Wells, Sandra Rochowansky, editors, The Addison-Wesley Book of Apple Computer Software 1983, The Book Company, page 175",
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"(computing, transitive) To transfer files between 13-sector and 16-sector Apple II diskettes, as with MUFFIN (Move Utility For Files In NewDOS.)"
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