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TOS Design
The
TOS is designed as a layered architecture.
The basics : Bios anx XBios
Bios is the most basic part, conserving directly with hardware. Its goal id to the upper layer (which is Gemdos) specificities of the hardware, and offer a intelligible programming interface.
Xbios is an extension of Bios, dealing with hardware that is not accessed by Gemdos (
ToBeChecked, give examples, list exceptions).