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The Machine Operating System, or MOS, is a discontinued computer operating system used in Acorn Computers' BBC computer range. It included support for four channel sound, graphics, file system abstraction and digital and analogue input and output including a daisy chained expansion bus, and it was single tasking, monolithic and non reentrant. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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The Machine Operating System, or MOS, is a discontinued computer operating system used in Acorn Computers' BBC computer range.
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