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- From: darren@scala.scala.com ("Darren M. Greenwald")
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan11.215621.13009@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:56:21 GMT
- References: <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk> <4cu42c$op3@ulke.himolde.no> <DKyp3w.M19@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Organization: US Research and Development - Scala Inc.
-
- In article <DKyp3w.M19@csc.liv.ac.uk> fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) writes:
- >> --
- >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.
- >
-
- 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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- Darren M. Greenwald | Scala Inc. R&D /
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