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- From: heinz@hwg.muc.de (Heinz Wrobel)
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- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:03:01 +0000
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- Dennis Lee Bieber (wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com) wrote:
- > Hmmm... I've always interpreted AmigaDOS to be that layer that
- >handled the file system structure (IE, all the stuff that got picked up from
- >MetaComCo/TRIPOS; which was grafted on top of EXEC's task model [read some of
- >the older manuals -- tasks are Exec, processes are AmigaDOS level... ])
-
- The Amiga Technologies name for the OS is "AmigaOS". "AmigaDOS"
- refers to the TRIPOS like DOS part. Using it for the complete OS is
- wrong. C= never used either term consistently.
-
- The parts of AmigaOS have typical and sometimes colloquial names
- like "Kickstart" and "Workbench".
-
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- Heinz Wrobel Private Mail: heinz@hwg.muc.de
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