The software foundations that made computers usable

Operating Systems

Explore 2 operating systems entries from the golden age of computing.

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GEOS

1986

The first fully-featured graphical operating system for the Commodore 64, bringing desktop computing to 8-bit machines

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Commodore KERNAL

1977

The KERNAL ROM provides essential system services and hardware abstraction for Commodore 8-bit computers

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About the Operating Systems Collection

Operating systems bridged the gap between raw hardware and user applications. This collection documents the system software that defined how millions of users interacted with their computers.

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