Misplaced Pages

S-OS

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Operating system
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "S-OS" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2014)

S-OS is a simple operating system mainly for Z80 based computers. The operating system was first presented in 1986 in the Japanese magazine Oh!X in an article called "The Sentinel".

Commands

The command and command set is very simplified.

Directory #D
Change default device (S=startup, A=tape..) #DV <device name>:
Jump to address (and run program) #J <address>
Load the program #L <filename>
Enter the machine specific monitor #M
Delete the file #K <file name>
Save a memory block to file #S <filename>: <start address>: <end address>
Exit from S-OS and reboot #!

Supported systems

  • Sharp MZ-80K/C/1200
  • Sharp MZ-700 / 1500
  • Sharp MZ-80B / 2000 / 2200
  • Sharp MZ-2500/2861(MZ-2500 mode)
  • Sharp X1/C/D/Cs/Ck/F/G/Twin (two different implementations)
  • Sharp X1turbo/II/III/Z/ZII/ZIII
  • NEC PC-8001/8801
  • NEC PC-6001mkII/6601/SR
  • Sony SMC-777C
  • Toshiba PASOPIA
  • Fujitsu FM-7 / 77 (Z80 extension card)
  • Sharp X68000 (emulated Z80)
  • PC-286/NEC PC-9801 (emulated Z80)
  • MSX 2 / 2+ / turboR
  • Casio FP-1000 / 1100
  • Windows 32 bit (emulated Z80)
  • Sharp calculators PC-G850/S/V/VS

References

  1. S-OS (The Sentinel)

External links

Operating systems
General
Variants
Kernel
Architectures
Components
Process management
Concepts
Scheduling
algorithms
Memory management,
resource protection
Storage access,
file systems
Supporting concepts
Stub icon

This operating-system-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
S-OS Add topic