A/ROSE

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A/ROSE (Apple Real-time Operating System Environment) is a small embedded operating system that runs on Apple Computer's "Macintosh Coprocessor Platform", an expansion card for the Macintosh.

The idea was to offer a single "overdesigned" hardware platform on which third party vendors could build practically any product, reducing the otherwise heavy workload of developing a NuBus-based expansion card. However, the MCP cards were expensive, limiting the appeal of the concept. A/ROSE had very little use, apparently limited solely to Apple's own networking cards for serial I/O, Ethernet, Token Ring, and Twinax.^[1] GreenSpring Computers developed the RM1260, which is an IndustryPack (IP) carrier card with a 68000 CPU running A/ROSE and is intended for the data acquisition market.