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'''COSMOS''' is a personal cost monitoring system COSt MOnitoring System written by [[KSL|KSL]]. It which runs under [[CP/M|CP/M]]-80.<br><br>It COSMOS was initially released in 2006, whereas the latest version (v.25) was released in summer 2020.<br><br>COSMOS is a personal business application similar to the MSDOS-era PC applications and probably one of the largest most recent projects ever developed for CP/M-80.<br><br>The application requires COSMOS runs under [[CP/M|CP/M 2.2]] (the Dobbertin 63 KB of TPAversion) and is built upon the mouse based graphics user interface as pioneered by Xerox at Palo Alto and popularized by Apple with the Lisa and Macintosh computers. COSMOS can be used to edit the daily income, plan the monthly expenses and perform trial and error analyses in order to maximize the annual profit. A full annual project of COSMOS, including the user attachments, the user block of invoices, the summary files as well as the user agenda notices can hardly reside/run on a standard CPC6128 as it requires minimum 128 350 KB of total RAM and two disc drivesspace.<br><br>FurthermoreIn order to process and store the aforementioned data, it supports COSMOS makes full use of the Dobbertin Hard Disk CP/M memory resources and the CPC's peripherals. Thus, an external high capacity drive (360-800 KB), some RAM expansion(256-512 KB), includes GSX and a user friendly GUI using [[AMX Mouse]]hard disk (20 MB HD), provides a serial RS232C interface, a dot matrix printer, a color monitor (for the 16-color screen saver, supports high capacity external drives, deals with the serial ) and parallel ports of an [[AMX Mouse]] are fully suggested. Notice that the CPC and provides CPC-latter configuration resembles to-a well equipped 8086/8088 PC communication via RS232Ccomputer. <br><br> It also includes a user friendly installation utility'''To download the latest version of COSMOS (v.25/Summer 2020) use the link below.''' <br>'''Boot CP/M using the original COSMOS disk and execute A>SETUP.COM.''' <br><br>Version 23 By using the setup installation utility of COSMOSthe user can initialize any annual project or start temporary or a demo project in order to become familiar with the COSMOS user interface and functions. As far as the controls are concerned, which was released Cursor keys or Mouse can be used in 2017order to control the pointer. [F0] key simulates the left button of the mouse, is whereas [F.] key simulates the final version right button of this projectthe mouse. Left button can be used for (Yes), whereas the right button can be used for (No),(Next) or (On-Board) help. ESC key can be used to escape.<br><br>Upon installing the application in drive B or HD20 it is suggested to execute COSMOS using all the available extra RAM (no RAM load minimization) and using a new empty boot disk in drive A as the redundant disk (user level software RAID-1 operation).  

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