Operating Systems > Not Quite Mainstream OSes
AmigaOS anyone?
restin256:
If it's entirely GUI-based, as XP is, does it not it have a command-prompt to fall back on when things fuck up? You can do that with Linux and every Windoze before 95.
mobrien_12:
Amigas were really nice computers. Very powerful, nice multimedia, multitasking OS.
I don't remember why Commodore went under.
BouncingAyatollah:
quote:If it's entirely GUI-based, as XP is, does it not it have a command-prompt to fall back on when things fuck up? You can do that with Linux and every Windoze before 95.
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With "Classic" AmigaOS there wasn't a text-mode screen, even shells were rendered fonts with graphical gadgets etc. Even the boot-menu on an A1200 was a GUI (before anything had loaded from HD/floppy). This was because the ROM contained GUI elements and filesystem etc. Not having an AmigaOne I have no idea how this has changed on the new machines. Besides things never fucked up to the point of needing a complete reinstall in my experience. In several YEARS of using an Amiga I *never* had to "do a resinstall" EVER, except for when I got a bigger HD when a "reinstall" was copying files across from one HD to another and rebooting. However, there was a no-startup shell, and once Workbench (dekstop) had loaded you have AmigaShells like consoles in linux. Again - no idea how this has changed though, hopefully not radically.
On CBM going under, the simple answer was very bad management decisions - the engineers knew a good machine (e.g. the unreleased A3000+ with onboard SCSI, AGA chipset etc.), whereas the managers only knew a "cost effective" machine, e.g. the A4000 with onboard IDE and cheap-looking PC-style case and the A500-"successor", the A600 which was a massive flop. Also un-engineering and reimplementing the chipset which was tightly tied to the hardware was slow going, so two different attempts to provide a chipset with features to compete with burgeoning SVGA capabilities did not come to fruition :(
Calum:
forgive me for being ignorant but is there a way i can try this out on a pentium 3 based machine? i have mandrake, windows ME (it's for my university's windows software to run on godsdamnit!) and a spare ext2 partition i could wipe if there was an easy way to install amigaOS on there. or is it best to try it in an amiga emulator (or get a real amiga? i think my sister has one actually.... still, it'd be easier for me to stick it on my free partition.
Fett101:
I used an Amiga emulator before. Worked decently. I can't quite remember the name of it, but I know I got it off a P2P.
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