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- From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: AmigaOS Versions
- Message-ID: <C0J819.143@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 11:03:09 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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- Amid all of the confusion, I will now survey what I believe are the major versions of
- the OS and submit for correction by the wisdom of the net.....
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- 1.0 - Was there one? Perhaps for early 1000's.
- 1.1 - On Kickstart disk for A1000 - the oldest version I have.
- 1.2 - First version to be found in ROM, in early 500's and 2000's - could be
- crashed by moving a Workbench window offscreen.
- 1.3 - The first reasonably stable, and longest lived version (3 years).
- 1.3.2 - Disk only upgrade, released with later A500's.
- 1.4 - (Never happened - became 2.0)
- 2.01, 2.02 - Disk-only (SuperKickstart) for early A3000's. Unstable.
- 2.04 - The first major release of 2.0x, for 3000's and in ROM for A500+/2000.
- ROM size increased to 512K. No more meditation. Lots of fixes. First
- decent version of Workbench. ECS support.
- 2.05 - Upgrade to above with minor fixes and support for IDE HDs (A600). Supplied
- with A1500 as software-only upgrade to 2.04 and in ROM in the 600.
- 2.10 - Current version for non-AGA machines. Locale.library, fixes, PostScript,
- some other stuff. I don't know if this is official in the UK but it IS
- available. Supplied with current A3000's.
- 3.0 - 2.10 with some extra bits, mainly to support the AGA (AA ?) chipset.
- Supplied with A1200/A4000.
-
- Can people add to or correct this?
-
- Dave
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