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- From: fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 20:23:36 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Message-ID: <4d1788$4hs@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
- References: <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk> <4cu42c$op3@ulke.hiMolde.no>
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- In article <4cu42c$op3@ulke.hiMolde.no>, runee@hai.hiMolde.no (Rune Espeseth) writes:
- |> Organization: Molde College, Department of Computer Science
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- |> Message-ID: <4cu42c$op3@ulke.hiMolde.no>
- |> References: <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk>
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- |>
- |> Ian Parkinson (Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- |> : Right...
- |>
- |> : Workbench is the bit the user deals with...
-
- Well, there's the workbenchscreen, which is in kickstart.
- and there is the iconsystem you got to load from disk.
-
- |> : Intuition is the bit that controls what the user sees...
- It's completely in Kickstart ROMs.
-
- |> : Kickstart is the bit that gets the OS going...
-
- Kickstart IS imho the OS. Boot without startup-sequence and you still
- got tasking, filesystems, windows, i.e. all exept your preferences,
- you paths, and the Iconsystem.
-
- |> : Exec is the bit that does the housekeeping...
- The kernel...
-
- |>
- |> : So what is our bloomin' OS actually CALLED???
- |>
- |>
- |> : Ian
- |>
- |> It's called AmigadOS. :-)
- |> Easy, eh? :-)
-
- What names one prefers is subjective, so <emotion mode on>:
-
- Imho Kickstart is a pretty nice name for the OS. The chips having
- names, the dokumentation, all is somehow with an ":)" in mind.
- Amiga is something exeptional, the OS was done by clever people.
-
- But when it comes up to a world of yuppies, kickstart sounds too
- much like ":)" and too little "$$$" or ":|" , so they renamed it
- from "Kickstart" to "OS" just to get more $$$.
-
- :\
-
- you used to say "I got Kick 1.3", but now you say "I got OS3.0"
-
- :\
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) =:)
-
- <emotion mode off>
-
- |>
- |> --
- |> Regards,
- |> Rune Espeseth
- |>
- |> CyberStorm060/50Mhz, CyberVision64/4Mb
- |> Computer Information Science Student at HiMolde, Norway
- |>
- |> My Life is an evil recursion.
- |>
-