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AROS Research Operating System

Index AROS Research Operating System

AROS Research Operating System (AROS pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. [1]

46 relations: Amiga, Amiga 1200, Amiga Chip RAM, Amiga, Inc., AmigaDOS, AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AMosaic, Application programming interface, ARM architecture, AROS Public License, Binary-code compatibility, Efika, Emulator, Floating-point unit, Free and open-source software, GeForce, Haage & Partner, IA-32, IBM PC compatible, Intel 80486, Internet protocol suite, Intuition (Amiga), Kickstart (Amiga), List of computing mascots, MorphOS, Motorola 68000, Motorola 68000 series, Native (computing), Nvidia, Open-source bounty, Open-source model, Open-source software, Personal computer, Porting, PowerPC, Raspberry Pi, Recursive acronym, Sam440ep, Source-code compatibility, UAE (emulator), USB, Virtual machine, X86, X86-64, Zune (widget toolkit).

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Amiga 1200

The Amiga 1200, or A1200 (code-named "Channel Z"), is Commodore International's third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home computer market.

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Amiga Chip RAM

Chip RAM is a commonly used term for the integrated RAM used in Commodore's line of Amiga computers.

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Amiga, Inc.

Amiga, Inc. is a company that holds some trademarks and other assets associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation).

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AmigaDOS

AmigaDOS is the disk operating system of the AmigaOS, which includes file systems, file and directory manipulation, the command-line interface, and file redirection.

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AmigaOS

AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers.

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AmigaOS 4

AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors.

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AMosaic

AMosaic is a discontinued Amiga port of the Mosaic web browser, developed beginning in 1993, and was the first graphical web browser for the Amiga.

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Application programming interface

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.

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ARM architecture

ARM, previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine, is a family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.

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AROS Public License

The AROS Public License (APL) is software license which is primarily used for distribution of the AROS Research Operating System software project.

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Binary-code compatibility

Binary-code compatibility (binary compatible or object-code-compatible) is a property of computer systems meaning that they can run the same executable code, typically machine code for a general-purpose computer CPU.

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Efika

Efika is a line of power efficient ARM architecture and Power Architecture based computers manufactured by Genesi.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers.

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Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software.

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GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia.

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Haage & Partner

Haage & Partner is a German company established in 1995.

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IA-32

IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386) is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, first implemented in the Intel 80386 microprocessors in 1985.

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IBM PC compatible

IBM PC compatible computers are computers similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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Intel 80486

The Intel 80486, also known as the i486 or 486, is a higher performance follow-up to the Intel 80386 microprocessor.

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Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite is the conceptual model and set of communications protocols used on the Internet and similar computer networks.

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Intuition (Amiga)

Intuition is the native windowing system and user interface (UI) engine of AmigaOS.

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Kickstart (Amiga)

Kickstart is the bootstrap firmware of the Amiga computers developed by Commodore.

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List of computing mascots

This is a list of computing mascots.

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MorphOS

MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like computer operating system.

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Motorola 68000

The Motorola 68000 ("'sixty-eight-thousand'"; also called the m68k or Motorola 68k, "sixty-eight-kay") is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, which implements a 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers and 32-bit internal data bus, but with a 16-bit data ALU and two 16-bit arithmetic ALUs and a 16-bit external data bus, designed and marketed by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.

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Motorola 68000 series

The Motorola 68000 series (also termed 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit CISC microprocessors.

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Native (computing)

In computing, software or data formats that are native to a system are those that the system supports with minimal computational overhead and additional components.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation (most commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, or (due to their logo) nVIDIA) is an American technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California.

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Open-source bounty

An open-source bounty is a monetary reward for completing a task in an open-source software project.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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Personal computer

A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries.

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Recursive acronym

A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself.

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Sam440ep

Sam440, also known by Sam or its codename Samantha, is a line of modular motherboards produced by the Italian company ACube Systems Srl.

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Source-code compatibility

Source-code compatibility (source-compatible) means that a program can run on computers (or operating systems), independently of binary-code compatibility and that the source code is needed for portability.

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UAE (emulator)

UAE is a computer emulator which emulates the hardware of the Commodore Amiga range of computers.

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USB

USB (abbreviation of Universal Serial Bus), is an industry standard that was developed to define cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication, and power supply between personal computers and their peripheral devices.

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Virtual machine

In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a computer system.

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X86

x86 is a family of backward-compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant.

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X86-64

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64) is the 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set.

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Zune (widget toolkit)

Zune is an object-oriented GUI toolkit which is part of the AROS (AROS Research Operating System) project and nearly a clone, at both an API and look and feel level, of Magic User Interface (MUI), a well-known Amiga shareware product by Stefan Stuntz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Research_Operating_System

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