- Myarc Disk Operating System
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MDOS Company / developer Myarc, Paul Charlton Working state Discontinued Source model Closed source Initial release 1987 Kernel type Monolithic kernel Default user interface MDOS CLI License Proprietary MDOS (short for Myarc Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Myarc. It was designed and implemented specifically for the Geneve 9640 by Paul Charlton. MDOS was designed to fully emulate the TI-99/4A computer while providing an advanced (for its time) virtual memory operating environment with full support for mouse, GUI, and complex mathematical applications.
MDOS was written specifically for the TMS9995 16-bit CPU and the Yamaha V9938 video display processor.
External links
- Myarc Geneve 9640 Family Computer
- Myarc Geneve 9640 Software
- 9640News Software
- Geneve 9640 - a close look at the system board and sales flyer
- Geneve 9640 at the Home Computer Museum
- Geneve items @ Richard Bell's Company
- Photo of Geneve 9640 booting - HD-based vertical PEB system belonging to Gregory McGill
- Photo of Geneve showing swan image - from Mainbyte
- 1988 Dallas TI Fair - mixed Geneve 9640 and TI-99/4A photos
- [1] - Geneve 9640 at old-computers.com
Operating system General Kernel ArchitecturesGeneralSubtypesComponentsProcess management ConceptsProtected mode · Supervisor modeCooperative multitasking · Preemptive multitasking · Round-robin scheduling · Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling · Multilevel feedback queue · Shortest job nextMemory management Examples Miscellaneous concepts Boot loader · Live CD · Live USB · PXE · API · Virtual file system · Virtual tape library · Computer network · CLI · TUI · GUI · VUI · HALCategories:- Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- Home computers
- 1987 introductions
- Discontinued operating systems
- Disk operating systems
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