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Acorn MOS

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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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Discontinued 1
Year
1981 1
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Source Wikipedia: Acorn MOS
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1. Wikipedia: Acorn MOS
  • Infobox: released
    Late 1981
  • Lead section
    The Machine Operating System (MOS) or OS is a discontinued computer operating system (OS) used in Acorn Computers' BBC computer range.
  • In Field: Operating Systems, User interface
    From BBC BASIC 2 onwards, commands can also be issued using the OSCLI keyword in conjunction with a command string.
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Wikidata: Acorn MOS
Wikidata Q4674556, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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