ACT apricot - Section I.system Overview; Table of Contents

SECTION I.SYSTEM OVERVIEW
1-1 HARDWARE
CONTENTS ............................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION ..... ...... .... ........................... ........... 1
SYSTEM UNIT ........ ...... ... .... .......... ..... ........ .... ........... 3
KEYBOARD UNIT .... .... ..... ... ..... ...... .... ....... ...... ......... 5
DISPLAY UNIT ................ ......... ..... .... ....... ........ ......... 7
1-2 SOFTWARE
CONTENTS ............................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION ..... ..... .......... ....... .......... ................ 1
BIOS FEATURES-
OVERVIEW OF CAPABILITIES ......... ..... .... ......... ..... 2
Foreground and Background Operations ............... 2
Multi -sector Reads and Writes .............................. 3
Tri -buffer ... ... .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. ... .. . . . . .. .... .. ..... ...... .... .... 3
Apricot Control Device .......................................... 4
System Configuration Block .................................. 4
MicroScreen Driver ................................................ 4
Time and Date Clock ............................................. 5
Calculator ............................................................... 5
General Hardware Support .................................... 5
1-3 OPTIONS
CONTENTS ............................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION .......... ...... ...... ............. ...... ............ 1
FLOPPY DISK OPTIONS .... .......... .... ......... ................ 1
128KBYTERAMEXPANSIONBOARD .................. 2
MODEM ..................................................................... 2
NUMERICDATAPROCESSOR ............................... 3