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View Ref-File11  MagiC                                                          TOS

... is a largely TOS-compatible operating system from Application 
Systems Heidelberg, which can offer preemptive multitasking as well as 
a range of further features. The prime argument for MagiC is doubtless 
the fact that it is the only (compatible) operating system that is 
still being developed further (at the time this was written), and in 
addition offers the use of modern hardware (the Power-PC). The latter 
was achieved with a port of MagiC to the Apple platform as MagiC Mac. 
At a later stage, MagiC was also ported to the PC platform under 
Windows, known as MagiC PC.

This section describes the following points:

   . Accessories in MagiC
   . AUTOEXEC.BAT file
   . MagiC's DFS-concept
   . Error-messages of MagiC
   . Iconification
   . MAGX.INF file of MagiC
   . Shutdown
   . Smart redraw
   . Test for MagiC
   . VFAT-XFS in MagiC
   . Additional programs for MagiC
   . Extract from MagiC's BIOS
   . Peculiarities of the 3D-look
   . Input fields
   . Background-DMA
   . Drive U:
   . Semaphores in MagiC
   . Single-mode
   . Task-manager
   . Threads
   . MagiC's XFS-concept
   . Shared libraries

Note: One should not hide the fact here that MagiC (at least the 
earlier versions) has clear weaknesses compared to Atari's MultiTOS: 
The functionality of the AES Version 4.0 has not been reached yet, 
many GEMDOS functions are not implemented, and also the interface for 
installing alternative filesystems can be described as unfortunate in 
comparison to the MultiTOS solution.

See also: About the BIOS   About the XBIOS   GEM   About the VDI