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- From: darren@scala.scala.com ("Darren M. Greenwald")
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan16.182211.6933@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:22:11 GMT
- References: <DKyp3w.M19@csc.liv.ac.uk> <1996Jan11.215621.13009@scala.scala.com> <9601131157.AA001r3@notb.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: US Research and Development - Scala Inc.
-
- In article <9601131157.AA001r3@notb.demon.co.uk> Ken Eccles <keneccles@notb.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >Darren M. Greenwald (darren@scala.scala.com) wrote:
- >: In article <DKyp3w.M19@csc.liv.ac.uk> fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) writes:
- >: >> --
- >: >AmigaDOS is the Shell commands.
- >:
- >: Personally, I always called it "AmigaOS" because AmigaDOS placed
- >: too much emphasis on "Disk Operating System" - unlike MS-DOS, which
- >: was not much more than a disk operating system, AmigaOS is much more
- >: than just a DOS. So the terminology "AmigaOS" always appealed to
- >: me much more
- >
- >But then AmigaDOS rolls off the tongue more fluently than AmigaOS does
- >(IMO anyway! =o). AmigaOS.. sounds like there's something missing..
- >
-
- You are correct in noting that the Amiga Operating System could
- really use an official name, hopefully one that is marketable (or
- at least memorable). I don't really like "AmigaOS" or "AmigaDOS"
- all that much as a marketing name, though I prefer "AmigaOS" as
- a technical name. Non-technical names may be preferrable as an
- official marketing name.
-
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- Darren M. Greenwald | Scala Inc. R&D /
- Senior Systems Engineer | darren@scala.com o
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