Atari DOS is the disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit computers. Operating system extensions loaded into memory were required in order for an...
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The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with...
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Optimized Systems Software (category Atari 8-bit computers)
primarily for Atari 8-bit computers. The founders of OSS previously developed Atari DOS, Atari BASIC, and the Atari Assembler Editor for Atari, Inc., and...
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The Atari Portfolio (Atari PC Folio) is an IBM PC-compatible palmtop PC, released by Atari Corporation in June 1989. It was the first palmtop computer...
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referred to as "DOS" in the context of its user community. For example, CBM DOS, Atari DOS, TRS-DOS, Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, and MS-DOS. CP/M is also a...
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The XF551 is a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive produced by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. Introduced in 1987, it matches the gray design language...
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DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
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System (later known as DOS 1.0). Atari's plans were to take an early 8K version of Microsoft BASIC to the 1979 CES, then switch to Atari BASIC for production...
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DR DOS 6.0 by Novell OpenDOS, a successor of Novell DOS by Caldera Atari DOS, from Atari, Inc. DOS XL, from Optimized Systems Software MyDOS SmartDOS SpartaDOS...
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releasing it with the older Atari DOS 2.0S, S for "single", which did not support the 130 kB capacity. Atari replaced 2.0 with DOS 3.0 which supported the...
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Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit computers. The initial model, the Atari 520ST...
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Atari Calculator (or Calculator) is a proprietary software program developed by Atari, Inc. for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1979. It incorporates...
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dos, Dos, DoS, DOS, dós, dōs, dös, döş, or døs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DOS is a family of IBM PC-compatible operating systems. DOS or Dos...
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The Atari 810 is the official floppy disk drive for the Atari 400 and 800, the first two models of Atari 8-bit computers. It was released by Atari, Inc...
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The Atari Microsoft BASIC and Atari Microsoft BASIC II variants of the 6502-version of Microsoft BASIC ported to the Atari 8-bit computers. The first version...
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Atari Assembler Editor (sometimes written as Atari Assembler/Editor) is a ROM cartridge-based development system released by Atari, Inc. in 1981. It is...
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disk format disappeared. The most common capacity of the 5¼-inch format in DOS-based PCs was 360 KB (368,640 bytes) for the Double-Sided Double-Density...
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Systems Software (OSS) for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed to be compatible with Atari DOS which shipped with Atari, Inc.'s disk drives, which...
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History of Microsoft Word (section Write for Atari ST)
for Office 365. In 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST. The Atari ST version was a translation of Word 1.05 for...
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3 Atari DOS 3 for Atari 8-bit computers It may also refer to versions of the Microsoft MS-DOS family: MS-DOS 3.0, with FAT16 support in 1984 MS-DOS 3...
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Turbo-BASIC XL (category Atari 8-bit computer software)
with different DOS systems have been released by other authors. Turbo-Basic XL greatly improves execution over Atari BASIC. An Atari BASIC program loaded...
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FreeMiNT. Atari TOS (The Operating System) debuted with the Atari 520ST in 1985. TOS combines Digital Research's GEM GUI running on top of the DOS-like GEMDOS...
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DOS 2 or DOS-2 may refer to: A failed Soviet space station DOS-2, part of the Salyut programme Atari DOS 2.0 for Atari 8-bit computers It may also refer...
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for Atari 8-bit computers was published in mass market books, including The Atari BASIC Source Book (full source for Atari BASIC) and Inside Atari DOS (full...
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Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃fɔɡʁam])), also known as Atari Group, is a French holding company headquartered...
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In MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems such as Atari DOS, filespec is a term meaning a filename identifier that specifies both the...
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Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade video games, active from 1985 to 1999, then as Midway Games West Inc. until 2003. It was formed...
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Indus GT (category Atari 8-bit computers)
CP/M software. For Atari users, the drive shipped with DOS XL from Optimized Systems Software, authors of the original Atari DOS. DOS XL added support for...
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Floppy disk variants (section Atari 8-bit computers)
products. Under the Atari DOS II scheme, sector 360 is the VTOC sector map, and sectors 361-367 contain the file listing. The Atari-brand DOS II versions and...
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The Lurking Horror (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
(including his Cthulhu Mythos). The original release was for MS-DOS, Apple II, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit computers, and Commodore 64. It was Infocom's 26th game...
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