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Move KAOS to High, add patched TOS 2.06 details, remove KAOS from Low
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<h2>KAOS TOS</h2>
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<p>KAOS TOS is a comprehensive software patch for the Atari ST's TOS, developed from 1990 to fix bugs and boost performance. It's not a standalone operating system but a patch for the original Atari TOS, mainly based on TOS 1.02 and TOS 1.04. The developers corrected over 80 known programming errors in the original system. KAOS 1.2 was published in the c't magazine, while the later KAOS 1.4.2 was sold commercially.</p>
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<p>It ran noticeably faster, and although critics claimed this was only from disabling visual effects, re-enabling them disproved that. Since the Atari ST keeps its operating system in ROM, KAOS was often burned onto EPROM chips and physically installed in the machine. Most cleanly written applications ran without problems, with special helper patches for the few incompatible ones. Atari never officially licensed the project but tolerated it on the market. It was shaped by Andreas Kromke and Normen Kowalewski, among others, and became well known in the Atari community through coverage in the ST-Magazin.</p>
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<p>KAOS TOS is also installed on my <a href="/retro/mega-st-low/">"Low"</a> machine, though I rarely use it. Theoretically it's there and available if needed.</p>
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<p>KAOS TOS is also installed on my <a href="/retro/mega-st-high/">"High"</a> machine, though I currently always run Geneva under TOS 2.06. No TOS switcher is wired up yet, so it's fixed to TOS 2.06 for now.</p>
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<h2>Adding multitasking: Geneva and MiNT</h2>
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<p>Plain Atari TOS is a single-tasking system: only one main program runs at a time. Two well-known add-ons change that.</p>
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