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Little Things That Made Amiga Great | datagubbe.se (datagubbe.se)

submitted 2 years ago by edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital to c/amiga@sopuli.xyz

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Honestly, this list of features is really impressive, I'm really starting to see what made AmigaOS so special for so many people, and I'm a hard-line *nix gal. AmigaOS seems really unique, in that it's an especially lightweight, responsive, yet structurally clever and well thought through system. It must've felt light years ahead of everything well into the 90s. This is definitely making me want to upgrade my A500 to Kickstart 2.04 or 3.1 to get these features.

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[–] gerco@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AmigaOS was far ahead of its time and really a treasure trove of cool features. Not just on the UI side, most of its contemporaries didn't have loadable and unloadable drivers, pluggable file systems, etc. It's amazing all this even worked without memory protection, but almost all of it did work.

[–] MoonKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I’d forgotten so much of this stuff. It really was amazing. The IFF file format and data types stuff was fantastic.