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    AROS Research Operating System (AROS, pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open-source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 application programming...
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    AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. It was developed first by Commodore International...
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  • main operating system at Boston University for over 10 years.) AROS – AROS Research Operating System (formerly known as Amiga Research Operating System) AtheOS...
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  • AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source...
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  • computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. 1951...
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    runs a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS, with a desktop environment called Workbench. The Amiga 1000, based on the Motorola 68000...
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  • "Atari Low Level Game Routines") AROS: AROS Research Operating System (originally Amiga Research Operating System) ATI: ATI Technologies Inc. BIRD: BIRD Internet...
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    program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for...
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  • Amiga emulation refers to the activity of emulating a Commodore Amiga computer system using another computer platform. Most emulators run on modern systems...
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    Motors' Research division for its IBM 704.[specify] Most other early operating systems for IBM mainframes were also produced by customers. Early operating systems...
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    MorphOS (category Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media)
    MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like operating system designed for Power and PowerPC based computers. The core, based on the Quark microkernel, is proprietary,...
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  • MetaComCo (category Amiga)
    from Commodore because the original planned Amiga disk operating system called Commodore Amiga Operating System (CAOS) was behind schedule; timescales were...
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    release of Version 10, the Unix research team at Bell Labs turned its focus to Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a distinct operating system that was first released to...
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  • from Optimized Systems Software MyDOS SmartDOS SpartaDOS SpartaDOS X TOP-DOS Turbo-DOS AmigaDOS, disk operating system portion of AmigaOS AMSDOS, for Amstrad...
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    Carl Sassenrath (category Amiga people)
    of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system...
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    Amiga demos are demos created for the Amiga home computer. A "demo" is a demonstration of the multimedia capabilities of a computer (or more to the point...
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  • completed for the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS), implementing a free Kickstart ROM replacement for use with the UAE emulator and FPGA Amiga reimplementations...
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  • three existing Amiga-like operating systems[5] are generally ported from the open source (mainly from Linux) software base. Many Amiga software products...
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    regular files in the tree of a disk-based file system ^ Emulation on Amiga Comparison between PCX and PCTask, Amiga PC emulators. ^ See also This article explaining...
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  • ISBN 9780956081315. "AROS Research Operating System". Aros.sourceforge.net. Retrieved July 17, 2016. Amiga portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amiga computers...
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    Commodore USA (category Amiga companies)
    Commodore USA systems. Their new Amiga product line is not compatible with original Amiga systems including the operating system, AmigaOS which is in...
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    Magic User Interface (category Amiga APIs)
    MorphOS operating system. The MUI application programmer interface has been cloned by the Zune toolkit used in the AROS Research Operating System. Creating...
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  • OctaMED (category Amiga music formats)
    for Amiga and Amiga-like next generation systems from RBF Software. In January 2024 active development of the Amiga source code was resumed by AmigaKit...
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    (and for some time after) was the Amiga's fully multi-tasking operating system, a powerful built-in animation system using a hardware blitter and copper...
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  • systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating system...
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    DOS (redirect from DOS operating system)
    processors. It was developed to be similar to Digital Research's CP/M—the dominant disk operating system for 8-bit Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 microcomputers—in...
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  • Video Toaster (category Amiga software)
    standard-definition video. The plug-in expansion card initially worked with the Amiga 2000 computer and provides a number of BNC connectors on the exposed rear...
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  • RISC OS, the computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers for their ARM-based Acorn Archimedes range, was originally released in 1987 as Arthur...
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  • Zune (widget toolkit) (category Operating system stubs)
    (AROS Research Operating System) project and nearly a clone, at both an API and look-and-feel level, of Magic User Interface (MUI), a well-known Amiga shareware...
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    other clients. File folder "Chapter 1: Tutorial". Using The AMIGA Workbench. Commodore-Amiga. July 1991. p. 46. The path specifies the disk name, or location...
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