Can Linux cure my craving for AmigaDOS?

[Zac67]

@KThunder
AmigaDOS is (for a very large part) a port of TRIPOS - but TRIPOS isn't based on Unix at all. If you take a look at the interna - memory management, message passing, micro kernel - this is quite obvious.

[Zac67]

KThunder wrote:
you are correct about memory management to a point. the designers of tripos puposely didnt use the same memory setup as unix as they were designing an os for a completely different purpose than mainframes.

Ack.

message passing is actually very similar [...]

The implementation differs fundamentally.

microkernal setup is differnt partially because commodore et. al. used a rom for basic functions and exec for everything else.

Erm - maybe you should read up on 'microkernel'.
And exec.library resides in ROM - no way around that for sure.

dozens af computer scientists around the world tracing the history of unix and its flavors place tripos in the tree so to speak and the 68k implementation that became amigaos as a direct sucessor.

Yes? At least ppl at Wikipedia don't:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system#Unix-like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS
And I wouldn't either. The architectures and implementation differ far too much. You could call them 'similar' (as AmigaDOS is POSIX oriented), but AOS is definitely not 'Unix-like'.

the command stucture, batch file setup init. files etc. etc. are very similar.

That'd make MS-DOS Unix-like, too. You're looking at the user or maybe application side, I'm talking about architecture.
I'd say, AmigaOS is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Unix. (Sorry, Douglas ;-))