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 =Alternatives=
-There have been numerous TOS replacements and additions released throughout the lifecycle of TOS itself, and into the 2000's. TOS is actually a collection of components, and alternatives vary in the scope of what they replace. There are replacements of the VDI components which speed up the graphical operations of any TOS instance they are applied to (eg [[NVDI]]). There are also replacements of the desktop and interface look and feel (eg [[NeoDesk]]), replacements of the kernel only (eg [[MINT Operating System|MiNT]]), or indeed replacements that do replace the entire set of TOS components (eg [[EmuTos]]).
+There have been numerous TOS replacements and additions released throughout the lifecycle of TOS itself, and into the 2000's. TOS is actually a collection of components, and alternatives vary in the scope of what they replace. There are replacements of the VDI components which speed up the graphical operations of any TOS instance they are applied to (eg [[NVDI]]). There are also replacements of the desktop and interface look and feel (eg [[NeoDesk]]), replacements of the kernel only (eg [[MINT Operating System|MiNT]]), or indeed replacements that do replace the entire set of TOS components (eg [[EmuTOS]]).
 *[[MINT Operating System|FreeMiNT]] replaces the operating system kernel and focusses on robust and proper implementation of multitasking. Development is continued into today (2009)

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 TOS was distributed on [[Computer_acronyms#ROM|ROM]]s mounted on the [[Atari_ST_motherboard_revisions|motherboard]]. It was loaded from these ROM's at boot time.
-TOS was a single-tasking operating system at the kernel level, but this kernel did develop into the multi-tasking [[MultiTOS]] in [[1993]]. Today the [[MiNT]] kernel continues to be developed as a descendant of MultiTOS. It is complemented by modern interface implementations in the form of [[MyAES]] and [[XaAES]]
+TOS was a single-tasking operating system at the kernel level, but this kernel did develop into the multi-tasking [[MultiTOS]] in [[1993]]. Today the [[MINT Operating System|MiNT]] kernel continues to be developed as a descendant of MultiTOS. It is complemented by modern interface implementations in the form of [[MyAES]] and [[XaAES]]
 See also [[The Operating System of the Atari ST]], which may need to be merged into this article.
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 =Alternatives=
-There have been numerous TOS replacements and additions released throughout the lifecycle of TOS itself, and into the 2000's. TOS is actually a collection of components, and alternatives vary in the scope of what they replace. There are replacements of the VDI components which speed up the graphical operations of any TOS instance they are applied to (eg [[NVDI]]). There are also replacements of the desktop and interface look and feel (eg [[NeoDesk]]), replacements of the kernel only (eg [[MiNT]]), or indeed replacements that do replace the entire set of TOS components (eg [[EmuTos]]).
+There have been numerous TOS replacements and additions released throughout the lifecycle of TOS itself, and into the 2000's. TOS is actually a collection of components, and alternatives vary in the scope of what they replace. There are replacements of the VDI components which speed up the graphical operations of any TOS instance they are applied to (eg [[NVDI]]). There are also replacements of the desktop and interface look and feel (eg [[NeoDesk]]), replacements of the kernel only (eg [[MINT Operating System|MiNT]]), or indeed replacements that do replace the entire set of TOS components (eg [[EmuTos]]).
-*[[MiNT|FreeMiNT]] replaces the operating system kernel and focusses on robust and proper implementation of multitasking. Development is continued into today (2009)
+*[[MINT Operating System|FreeMiNT]] replaces the operating system kernel and focusses on robust and proper implementation of multitasking. Development is continued into today (2009)
 *[[MyAES]] replaces [[AES]] component of TOS, providing new interface API features, window rendering, textures, effects etc
 *[[XaAES]] as wiith MyAES, replaces AES and has similar features to MyAES. XaAES performs very well, being implemented as a service of the MiNT kernel.

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 '''TOS''' stand for '''T'''he '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem, and was the operating system distributed with all members of the [[TOS Family]] of computers manufactured by [[Atari]].
-TOS was distributed on [[ROM]]s mounted on the [[Atari_ST_motherboard_revisions|motherboard]]. It was loaded from these ROM's at boot time.
+TOS was distributed on [[Computer_acronyms#ROM|ROM]]s mounted on the [[Atari_ST_motherboard_revisions|motherboard]]. It was loaded from these ROM's at boot time.
 TOS was a single-tasking operating system at the kernel level, but this kernel did develop into the multi-tasking [[MultiTOS]] in [[1993]]. Today the [[MiNT]] kernel continues to be developed as a descendant of MultiTOS. It is complemented by modern interface implementations in the form of [[MyAES]] and [[XaAES]]

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 *[[MyAES]] replaces [[AES]] component of TOS, providing new interface API features, window rendering, textures, effects etc
 *[[XaAES]] as wiith MyAES, replaces AES and has similar features to MyAES. XaAES performs very well, being implemented as a service of the MiNT kernel.
-*[[N.AES]], the first available alternative to MultiTOS. Fast and stable, and is still used by many. Published by [[Woller Systeme]].
+*[[N.AES]], the first available alternative to MultiTOS. Fast and stable, and is still used by many. Published by [http://www.woller.com/atari/ Woller Systeme].
 *[[KaosTOS]]
 *[[MagiC]]. A commercial multitasking TOS-replacement. Was very popular in the nineties, but commercial support ended by the turn of the century.

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 There have been numerous TOS replacements and additions released throughout the lifecycle of TOS itself, and into the 2000's. TOS is actually a collection of components, and alternatives vary in the scope of what they replace. There are replacements of the VDI components which speed up the graphical operations of any TOS instance they are applied to (eg [[NVDI]]). There are also replacements of the desktop and interface look and feel (eg [[NeoDesk]]), replacements of the kernel only (eg [[MiNT]]), or indeed replacements that do replace the entire set of TOS components (eg [[EmuTos]]).
-*[[FreeMiNT]] replaces the operating system kernel and focusses on robust and proper implementation of multitasking. Development is continued into today (2009)
+*[[MiNT|FreeMiNT]] replaces the operating system kernel and focusses on robust and proper implementation of multitasking. Development is continued into today (2009)
 *[[MyAES]] replaces [[AES]] component of TOS, providing new interface API features, window rendering, textures, effects etc
 *[[XaAES]] as wiith MyAES, replaces AES and has similar features to MyAES. XaAES performs very well, being implemented as a service of the MiNT kernel.

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 ==TOS 3==
-Used in TT, written for [[68030]]. Also licensed to GE-Soft for use in their [[Eagle]] TT-clone, and [[Medusa Computer Systems]] for use in their [[Medusa]] and [[Hades]] clones.
+Used in TT, written for [[CPU|68030]]. Also licensed to GE-Soft for use in their [[Eagle]] TT-clone, and [[Medusa Computer Systems]] for use in their [[Medusa]] and [[Hades]] clones.
 '''3.01'''

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−	*Thought to unofficially stand for '''T'''ramiel '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem, however this has never been proven.	+	*Thought to unofficially stand for '''T'''ramiel '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem, however this has never been proven. Several Atari officials (including Sam Tramiel) has denied this. TOS still stands for '''T'''he '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem.

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 ==MultiTOS==
 Originally promised to be replacing TOS in ROM, MultiTOS was shipped with the Falcon on two floppy disks. MultiTOS consists of two main parts - MiNT (the kernel, originally developed by Eric Smith and bought by Atari) and a new version of the AES that supported multitasking. Unfortunelately the AES was very slow and buggy, which caused almost irreparable damage to MiNT's reputation. After Atari ceased to produce TOS computers, a beta version of an improved version of the AES was leaked. This was much faster, but unfortunately still buggy.
 When Atari ceased to produce TOS computers, MiNT was released under the GPL licence as FreeMiNT.