Notices tagged with amiga, page 9

@hhardy01 @slashdot I read that initially the Kickstart was cross-compiled from SunOS, which explains some similarities. However, AmigaDOS was a retrofit of TRIPOS, a preexisting OS for m68k machines developed in BCPL by the University of Cambridge. It compared well against MS-DOS, but was definitely not up to the same standard of UNIX systems a decade older: the shell was slow and very limited, no pipes, no symlinks, no sockets...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS

@slashdot and there was also this other thing called Multiuser Filesystem (MuFS), which wasn't just a filesystem. It was a huge kernel patch and a suite of CLI tools adding UNIX-like uids and gids to AmigaOS. I can't believe this could be done at runtime, without access to the source code of the OS. It was not the hack that you'd assume, because the entire OS was designed and documented to allow replacing individual functions, or entire system libraries.

http://mufs.sourceforge.net/
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@slashdot Still, I miss the modularity of #Amiga OS. You could replace any part of it at runtime, including filesystems, core parts of the windowing system, and even the task scheduler!

@slashdot It's sad that the glorious #Amiga died, but I think it was a necessary step to make room for the much more open ecosystem of hardware and software that we have now with Linux and free software.

@angristan @angristan :amiga: forever! #amiga

@niconiconi The 6502 and the 68000 could be connected to ram directly. And they were the awesomest 8bit and 16/32bit chips of the era.

Amiga rulez!

#c64 #amiga #retrocomputing

@kai My life started taking a really good turn around the end of high school, when I opened a BBS on my #Amiga and started engaging with a growing online community of like-minded nerds. Finally, I was able to fit in effortlessly! 🤓

100 juegos de Amiga en 10 minutos https://mierda.tv/2018/10/03/100-juegos-de-amiga-en-10-minutos/ #demoscene ##SHIT ##VIEW #amiga

Amimod – Player para mods formato protracker https://mierda.tv/2018/08/19/amimod-player-para-mods-formato-protracker/ #amigaos4.1 #protracker ##MUSIC ##CODE #amiga #audio #mods

Ver el público croata del #Mundial #Rusia2018 y pensar siempre en #Amiga es duro y crudo. #elqueentiendeentiende #pueseso

In the datacenter, waiting for last files to sync.
#disroot #amiga #retro

https://social.weho.st/media/BnselULk729Ig8f0bnQ