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A unique kiwi-developed 32-bit memory operating system called FAMOS. Very fast! If you think a RAM-Disk system makes a conventional disk operating system fast, a RAM-RAM system like FAMOS is the ultimate in speed.
Programmed in 100% assembler over countless thousands of hours to ensure maximum performance.
No, it's not an Apple or Mac OS, neither is it a Linux or Windows OS, but those are the only options trademe gives in the OS category!
Easy to use, and also comes with lots of documentation and built-in help too.
To be available in several distributions, right up to a System Development Kit where you can customise and re-build your own OS (from scratch if desired!)
This is the Classic Games & Music (CGM) distribution which comes with many favourite classic games as well as several applications including bitmap and animated GIF viewers, a synthesizer, an Amiga Module player and a selection of Amiga MODs in a variety of genres. Plus lots more!
Comes installed on a beautifully IBM-engineered SFF PC (measuring only 27.5cm wide by 27cm deep by 8.5cm high), complete with a high quality Lenovo keyboard, a 17-inch LCD screen and a new DVI cable.
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P.S. There are no "files" or "folders" in FAMOS. All programs and data
in memory are indexed in the Memory Contents Database (MCD) setup
and maintained by FAMOS. The MCD provides multiple sorting and
selection fields called "groups" which produces a result similar
to folders or "directories", but is far more flexible as well as
being less complex to implement.
Similarly all data stored on disks (whether programs or true "data")
are indexed in the Storage Contents Database (SCD), which is located
on the disk. The SCD format is identical to the Memory Contents MCD
except that it contains Start and Finish disk sectors instead of
linear memory addresses. When an item is copied from disk to memory
the Mass Storage utility also copies the SCD entry straight into the
MCD, replacing only the disk sector info with the memory addresses.
Now is that elegantly simple, or what?
Even better, there are no File Allocation Tables or "FAT"s, no FCB's,
(or MCB's for that matter), no file handles, and no possibility of
storage media ever becoming "fragmented", and hence even slower!
Remember, if U get FAMOS, FAMOS will be FAMOUS
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May 13, 2019 09:01
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oh good the FAMOS creator has made a 256kb README.TXT
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=05312559598120616099
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May 13, 2019 20:39
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i had a saved search on an auction site for old hardware and this guy's stuff came up. he's selling hardware with his own OS preinstalled, and most of the stuff in this thread is from that public auction
https://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/software/operating-systems/linux/listing-2060233028.htm?rsqid=a6862778eb7b4b20ae49f0a6cb5f8ebb-002
i don't know him but he lives about 30 minutes away and i'm tempted to buy it
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relatable
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