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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 18:48:47
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- Ken Eccles (keneccles@notb.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : 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
- :
- : But then AmigaDOS rolls off the tongue more fluently than AmigaOS does
- : (IMO anyway! =o). AmigaOS.. sounds like there's something missing..
-
- AmigOS, then ;)
-
- For as long as I can remember, I've referred to it as AmigaOS. I'd agree that
- it doesn't roll off the tongue too easily, but then I'm more used to typing it
- than saying it :)
-
- -- Mat.
-