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The OS supports many of the hardware available for the CPC, including real-time-clocks, the Vortex disc drives, several mice & trackballs and the Dobbertin HD20 hard disc. Also the [[SYMBiFACE II|SYMBiFACE II]] (RTC and PS/2 mouse, RAM, ROM, IDE low level) are is supported in system .8 beta. One idea of the ambitions of FutureOS was is to support any all hardware available. For example there are , like 3.5" B-drives, Vortex F1-D-drives, hard-discsHDDs, 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 goal of FutureOS is to provide a monolithik architecture, where all drivers are implemented in a hardcoded way, because the CPC has clearly defined hardware expansions compared to a PC.

*''Disc drives and hard discs:'' FutureOS supports up Hardware expansions usually need drivers that can be flexibly added to eight drives and up an OS. Contrary to four hardthis approach, a goal of FutureOS is to provide a centrally-disc partitionsoriented architecture where all drivers are implemented in a hardcoded way. It buffers This is possible since the directories read from any mass storage device in the expansion RAMCPC has clearly defined hardware expansions compared to a PC.

*''Disc drives and hard discs:'' FutureOS supports up to eight drives and up to four hard disc partitions. It buffers the directories read from any mass storage device in the expansion RAM. *''Plug and Play:'' If you connect a hardware expansion to a CPC, FutureOS will automatically detect that expansion, initialise it and make it accessibleavailable to the user. 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 The user can turn switch external hardware on or off in the configuration-bytes on or off (use ConfigOS utility).