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- From: Ken Eccles <keneccles@notb.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 11:57:23 GMT
- Organization: North of the Boarder BBS
- Message-ID: <9601131157.AA001r3@notb.demon.co.uk>
- References: <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk> <4cu42c$op3@ulke.himolde.no> <DKyp3w.M19@csc.liv.ac.uk> <1996Jan11.215621.13009@scala.scala.com>
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- 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
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- But then AmigaDOS rolls off the tongue more fluently than AmigaOS does
- (IMO anyway! =o). AmigaOS.. sounds like there's something missing..
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- Ken.
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- * Ken Eccles - keneccles@notb.demon.co.uk *
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