Milan (computer)
MILAN is the name of a TOS -compatible computer system that was planned as the successor to the Atari ST computers . It was developed by MILAN-Computersystems GbR. The system was launched in 1998 and is no longer in production today. The basic model is called MILAN 040, which refers to the Motorola 68040 central unit . The MILAN 040 could later be retrofitted with a Motorola 68060 . A special feature of the system is that the TOS operating system is in a Flash ROM . This enables the computer to start up quickly. By using standard PC components, the production costs should be reduced and the later expandability improved.
The successor to the MILAN 040 should be the MILAN 060 or MILAN II. Equipped with a Motorola 68060 as the main processor and USB interfaces, the MILAN II was to be sold through department stores and specialist dealers. A prototype was already completed. However, serial production did not take place. The management of MILAN-Computersystems GbR justified this in 2000 with the fact that important components of the motherboard were no longer available.
hardware
The MILAN 040 is based on a motherboard in AT format , it has three ISA slots, four PCI slots, four banks for EDO RAM , two IDE interfaces , a floppy interface and a connection for a PS / 2 mouse , Keyboard connection, a parallel interface and two serial interfaces .
operating system
The TOS operating system has the version number 4.08 and is a further development of the TOS of the Atari Falcon 030 .
In addition to the TOS, the MILAN-MultiOS was also included. This TOS-compatible operating system is also installed on the hard drive and offers the user preemptive multitasking . MILAN-MultiOS is a special version of N.AES. This in turn is based on a MiNT kernel.
The TOS-compatible MagiC operating system was later also available as a further alternative for the MILAN.