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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
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- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:57:32 GMT
- 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:
- > Ian Parkinson (Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > : Right...
- >
- > : Workbench is the bit the user deals with...
- > : Intuition is the bit that controls what the user sees...
- > : Kickstart is the bit that gets the OS going...
- > : Exec is the bit that does the housekeeping...
- >
- > : So what is our bloomin' OS actually CALLED???
- >
- >
- > : Ian
- >
- > It's called AmigadOS. :-)
- > Easy, eh? :-)
- >
- > --
- AmigaDOS is the Shell commands.
- Workbench is the GUI.
- Kickstart is the OS's ROM.
- Intuition controls the look'n'feel.
- Exec handles multitasking and does general OS housekeeping
- (individual progs have to do their own!)
-
- The old 1.3 upgrade used to be described as both Workbench 1.3
- and AmigaDOS 1.3 (Didn't the actual upgrade box have both
- names on it...?)
-
- Recently the name AmigaOS has started to be used a lot to describe
- the entire OS package - although I don't know if this is it's official
- name.
-
- -FISH- ><>
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