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View Ref-File2.1  The Operating System TOS                                      TOS

The operating system TOS (The Operating System) may be subdivided into 
various sections. Communications with the users is realized via GEM, 
which offers a comfortable user-interface and is composed of AES- and 
VDI-functions.

Beyond this many further routines are available, which may be 
allocated to one of the following categories:

   . GEMDOS
   . BIOS
   . XBIOS

TOS dates back to the year 1985. In the course of time it was further 
developed by Atari and is available for various models of computer 
(ST, STE, Mega-ST, TT, Falcon, ...). In addition there are a number of 
TOS-compatible systems offered by third parties. Worth mentioning in 
this connection are, above all, MagiC and Geneva. While MagiC has 
become important particularly in Germany (and the U.K.), Geneva seems 
to have met with a certain amount of approval in the USA. Thanks to 
MagiC Mac, an implementation of MagiC to the Apple (Power) Macintosh 
hardware, TOS programs are now running also on Apple computers. A 
later variant, MagiC PC, has also extended this to many Windows 
machines.

See also: TOS list