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In addition, MultiTOS supported true multi-tasking, improving on MiNT's early restrictions of being able to support multiple command line ("TOS applications"), but not but programs that used the GUI ("GEM applications").  

In addition, MultiTOS supported true multi-tasking, improving on MiNT's early restrictions of being able to support multiple command line ("TOS applications"), but not but programs that used the GUI ("GEM applications").  

MultiTOS also included support for all the hardware of the Falcon that was unique to it within the range of Atari computers, such as it's IDE interface (other Atari systems used SCSI and ACSI, an Atari propieatry system similar to SCSI), the DSP chip and dedicated DSP port.

MultiTOS also included support for all the hardware of the Falcon that was unique to it within the range of Atari computers, such as its IDE interface (other Atari systems used SCSI and ACSI, an Atari propieatry system similar to SCSI), the DSP chip and dedicated DSP port.

The problems were far from insurmountable, and a few relatively modest hardware and software tweaks could have made the standard Falcon / MultiTOS system a usable if not spectacular combination, but Atari had since shifted their focus from computers to games consoles, and the decision was made to completely abandon support for MultiTOS and the entire computer line, and focus on the Jaguar console, leaving behind several almost completed improvements and new developments.

The problems were far from insurmountable, and a few relatively modest hardware and software tweaks could have made the standard Falcon / MultiTOS system a usable if not spectacular combination, but Atari had since shifted their focus from computers to games consoles, and the decision was made to completely abandon support for MultiTOS and the entire computer line, and focus on the Jaguar console, leaving behind several almost completed improvements and new developments.