CSI-DOS is an
operating systemAn operating system is an interface between hardware and user which is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the resources of the computer that acts as a host for computing applications run on the machine. As a host, one of the purposes of an operating...
, created in
SamaraSamara is one of the largest cities in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia, the Volga Federal District. Samara is the capital of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Togliatti-Syzran within Samara Region constitutes the population of more...
, for the
SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
Elektronika BK-0011MThe Elektronika BK was a series of 16-bit PDP-11-compatible Soviet home computers developed by NPO Scientific Center, the leading Soviet microcomputer design team at the time. It was also responsible also for the more powerful UKNC and DVK micros...
and
Elektronika BK-0011The Elektronika BK was a series of 16-bit PDP-11-compatible Soviet home computers developed by NPO Scientific Center, the leading Soviet microcomputer design team at the time. It was also responsible also for the more powerful UKNC and DVK micros...
microcomputersA microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit. Another general characteristic of these computers is that they occupy physically small amounts of space when compared to mainframe and minicomputers...
. CSI-DOS did not support the earlier BK-0010. CSI-DOS used its own unique
file systemIn computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them...
and only supported a color graphics video mode. The system supported both hard and floppy drives as well as
RAM disksA RAM disk is a block of RAM that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive...
in the computer's memory. It also included software to work with the AY-3-8910 and AY-3-8912 music co-processors, and the
Covox Speech ThingThe Covox Speech Thing was an external audio device attached to the computer to output digital sound. It was composed of a primitive 8-bit DAC and an analogue signal output, and plugged in to the printer port of the PC....
. There are a number of games and demos designed specially for the system.
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CSI-DOS is an
operating systemAn operating system is an interface between hardware and user which is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the resources of the computer that acts as a host for computing applications run on the machine. As a host, one of the purposes of an operating...
, created in
SamaraSamara is one of the largest cities in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia, the Volga Federal District. Samara is the capital of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Togliatti-Syzran within Samara Region constitutes the population of more...
, for the
SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
Elektronika BK-0011MThe Elektronika BK was a series of 16-bit PDP-11-compatible Soviet home computers developed by NPO Scientific Center, the leading Soviet microcomputer design team at the time. It was also responsible also for the more powerful UKNC and DVK micros...
and
Elektronika BK-0011The Elektronika BK was a series of 16-bit PDP-11-compatible Soviet home computers developed by NPO Scientific Center, the leading Soviet microcomputer design team at the time. It was also responsible also for the more powerful UKNC and DVK micros...
microcomputersA microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit. Another general characteristic of these computers is that they occupy physically small amounts of space when compared to mainframe and minicomputers...
. CSI-DOS did not support the earlier BK-0010. CSI-DOS used its own unique
file systemIn computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them...
and only supported a color graphics video mode. The system supported both hard and floppy drives as well as
RAM disksA RAM disk is a block of RAM that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive...
in the computer's memory. It also included software to work with the AY-3-8910 and AY-3-8912 music co-processors, and the
Covox Speech ThingThe Covox Speech Thing was an external audio device attached to the computer to output digital sound. It was composed of a primitive 8-bit DAC and an analogue signal output, and plugged in to the printer port of the PC....
. There are a number of games and demos designed specially for the system.
The system also included a
Turbo VisionTurbo Vision is a DOS-based character-mode text user interface framework developed around 1992 by Borland for Pascal, and C++. Later it was deprecated in favor of Object Windows Library for the then-increasingly important Win16 API....
-like
APIAn application programming interface is an interface in computer science that defines the ways by which an application program may request services from libraries and/or operating systems. An API determines the vocabulary and calling conventions the programmer should employ to use the services...
allowing for simpler design of user applications, and a graphical file manager called
X-Shell.
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