TOS Design

The TOS is designed as a layered architecture.

The basics : BioS and 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).

Filesystems and memory : GemDos

Graphical basics : VdI

Graphical abstractions and application support : AeS

See Also

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