ACT apricot - Time and Date Clock; Calculator; General Hardware Support

SOFTWARE
Time and Date Clock
The time of day clock (located within the Keyboard) has
. been fully integrated within the BIOS. So on power up,
MS-DOS will display the correct time and date which can
easily be changed
with the TIME and DATE commands.
Calculator
From power up, a simple four-function calculator is
available
without the need to insert a disk. This calculator
can also be accessed from
within an application and results
of calculations
can be sent to the screen as if they were
typed
in from the keyboard.
General Hardware support
The BIOS also supports the Apricot hardware to a greater
extent than on other systems:
The Keyboard. Each of the keys on the Apricot keyboard can
be
made to produce up to three different codes, when
pressed in the Unshifted, Shifted or Control modes. These
codes can be:
1. A single character.
2. A string of characters, maximum length 255.
3. A
number of prefix codes can be sent, such as
ESCAPE.
4. The key can be defined as LOCAL, where its output
is sent directly to the screen driver.
5.
The key can have a combination of attributes, where
it can be affected by the CAPS lock, or SHIFT lock
modes. .
6. An auto-repeat mode can be selected where a
depressed
key continues producing its code until
released
Screen Driver. The screen display is totally compatible with
the Sirius. All the escape codes can be used directly, and the
screen buffer is physically in the same place within
memory. All the character attributes (reverse, underline,