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Encyclopedia > Amiga Research Operating System
Amiga Research Operating System
Website: www.aros.org
Company/
developer:
The AROS Development Team
OS family: Amiga
Source model: Open source
Latest stable release: / Abril 2, 2007
Supported platforms: x86, PPC
License: AROS Public License
AROS family/development tree.
AROS family/development tree.

Amiga Research Operating System (AROS) is a free software/open source implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. Designed to be portable and flexible, ports are currently available for x86 and PowerPC based PCs in native and hosted flavours, with other architectures in development. A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... The term software company could be applied to; a) a company that produces software or b) a company that distributes software from a third party or c) a company that provides services for software. ... A software developer is a person who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing. ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with various peripherals The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Tried to improve your image. ... Tried to improve your image. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... ... AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. ... A application programming interface (API) is the interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for services to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. ... In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e. ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... While being one of the first personal computers, the Altair 8800 was considered a mere toy due its lack of abilities. ... The term native mode is used in computing as follows. ...

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Current status

The project, started in 1997, has over the years become an almost "feature complete" implementation of AmigaOS - with currently (as of March 2006) only a few lacking areas of functionality. This was achieved by the efforts of a small team of developers. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


It can currently be installed on most IBM PC compatibles, and features native graphics drivers for video cards such as the GeForce range made by NVIDIA. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) (pronounced ) is an American corporation and is a major supplier of microchips used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs), graphics cards, and media and communications devices for PCs and game consoles such as the original Xbox and the PlayStation 3. ...


While the OS is still lacking in applications, a few have been ported, including E-UAE, an emulation program that allows 68k-native AmigaOS applications to run in the same way a majority must be run on AmigaOS 4.0. A few AROS-specific applications have also been written. AROS has TCP/IP networking support, and the AMosaic web browser is available, among other Internet-related applications. UAE is a free emulator, designed to run software written for the Amiga range of computers. ... The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... AMosaic was an Amiga port of the Mosaic web browser. ...


Some AROS Programs Available

Main article: AROS Programs

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See also

MorphOS is a mixed proprietary and open source operating system produced for the PegasosPPC hardware platform by a core development team and contributors. ... AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with various peripherals The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ... An emulator reproducing a console games playable atmosphere on a Windows computer. ... In computer science, a virtual machine is software that creates a virtualized environment between the computer platform and its operating system, so that the end user can operate software on an abstract machine. ... In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e. ... In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) describes the low-level interface between an application program and the operating system, between an application and its libraries, or between component parts of the application. ... In computing, a device (usually a computer processor) that can run the same source code intended to be compiled and run on another device is said to be source-compatible. ... ...

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Name of the Amiga Operating System (891 words)
When the Amiga was launched, in 1985, operating systems, and the word "operating system" itself, while well known to computer science students, did not have as strong an identity and recognition to the broad audience as they would have in the following decades.
In the 1980s the Amiga operating system consisted of a part that was stored in ROM or on a disk called "Kickstart", and of another part which was stored on a disk called "Workbench".
Therefore "Amiga OS", which is both generic and formally correct, appears to be a better name to use in the context of the "Classic" Amiga operating system, as used since 1985.
AmigaOS at AllExperts (3168 words)
On the first Amiga model, the A1000, this was loaded from disk, although eventually the Kickstart was embedded in a ROM chip inside the computer.
Operating System configuration files were loaded into the RAM disk on boot, greatly speeding operating system usage.
AROS, or Amiga Research Operating System is an attempt to clone the AmigaOS API in a portable open-source operating system.
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