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The OS supports many of the hardware available for the CPC, including the Vortex disc drives, several mice and the Dobbertin HD20.
One idea of FutureOS was to support any hardware available. For example there are 3.5" B-drives, Vortex F1-D-drives, hard-discs, real-time-clocks, serial interfaces etc. Hardware expansion usually need drivers, which can be flexible added to an OS. In contrast to this one of the future goals of FutureOS is to provide a monolithik architecture, where all drivers are implemented in a hardcoded way, because the CPC only has few hardware expansions compared to a PC.
=== Drives, hard-discs and mass storage ===
=== Plug and Play ===
If you connect a hardware expansion to a CPC, FutureOS will automatically detect that expansion, initialise it and make it accessible. The architecture of the OS allows you to add and remove hardware on purpose. An example: You add a trackball, you use it, then you connect and use a joystick and then you use a proportional mouse for example. You can turn external hardware in the configuration-bytes on or off, if you are able to rewrite the ROM(use ConfigOS utility).
== Utilities ==
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