== Hardware ==
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) is supported in system .8 beta. One of the ambitions of FutureOS is to support all hardware available, like 3.5" B-drives, Vortex F1-D-drives, HDDs, real-time clocks, serial interfaces etc. Hardware expansions usually need drivers that can be flexibly added to an OS. Contrary to this approach, a goal of FutureOS is to provide a centrally-oriented monolithic architecture where all drivers are implemented in a hardcoded way. This is possible since the CPC 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.