The original operating software of the CPC was a combination of a Basic interpreter ([[Locomotive BASIC]]) and the operating system itself. That was usual for many 8bit platforms during the late 70ies and the 80ies and even for 16bit systems like the Sinclair QL.
The operating system itself has been placed into a is stored inside one 16KB rom, which also includes the charset definition and the mathematic arithmetic routines, which . The last ones are not a part of the OS itself but of Basic. Regarding the general rules for an operating system the CPC OS has been designed in a way, that all its software is able to run completely hardware independant.
== Modules ==