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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Message-ID: <ifAVx*X3f@yaps.rhein.de>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 14:59:30 +0100
- References: <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk>, Ian Parkinson writes:
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- > Workbench is the bit the user deals with...
-
- Many things are called Workbench:
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- The WB disk.
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- The WB screen.
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- The ROM-resident program that lets the icons ond their associated
- windows appear on it.
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- > Kickstart is the bit that gets the OS going...
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- No, it's just the ROM (as opposed to the WB disk).
-
- > Exec is the bit that does the housekeeping...
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- I wish it did! But Exec is quite a messy housekeeper and relies upon
- the house's inhabitants to clean up their stuff before they leave.
-
- > So what is our bloomin' OS actually CALLED???
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- AmigaOS. Not very creative, eh?
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