Older Bill McEven clip from TechTV

[leirbag28]

 Interesting........I was told about this by my cousins but never saw it.

It was a good clip and AmigaAnywhere was cool.........problem was No one knew what it was and Amiga Anywhere was a dumb name.  Just as is AmigaOS (Imagine Windows being called MicrosoftOS). The correct name is Workbench. Workbench Anywhere and Workbench 4.0

[leirbag28]

@odin


Oh yeah?   then explain why every single Operating system that came with the amiga until 3.5  said:  Workbench 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 2.01 and 3.1 on the package and the disks?  :-)

nuff said.

Its Workbench! Not AmigaOS and before Workbench it was called Intuition (perhaps this may have been the name for the windowing system)

I dont consider DOPUS to be a Workbench replacement one bit.............just as DiskMaster 2 is NOT a Workbench replacement............its simply a file manager. You cant install DOPUS without Workbench and expect to have a FUll Operating system with icons on the desktop and all and have alll applications work for DOPUS. Its just fancy file manager.

Amiga's Disk Operating System (AmigaDOS) is Workbench as a Whole.............thats the way I will always see it

[leirbag28]

@jorkany


THanks for the clear up................but nevertheless...........the bottom line is..............if An OS for the Amiga is to be sold...........it is to be packaged as "Workbench" Just as Windows uses the X-Windows GUI and is called "Windows"

Reason?  because thats what people see when they boot up................Workbench.   And when you turned on the A1000 after insterting the Kickstart disk.................what does the han ask for?    You Got it!  Workbench.  Heck all AMigas ask for: Workbench after the kickstart boot if you have no Harddrive.

So as I said before...........Amigas Operating System is called Workbench.  This argument does not exist on the Mac and PC..........they have Mac OSX and PCs have Windows.

THis type of thing is exatly what is goin to ruin Linux or at least will never allow it to gain enough ground..............because "techies" and "coders" and "Computer Geeks" can't seem to understand that Most people could give a crap about how it works or all the technical explainations why it can or cant do this...........they just want the darn thing to be simple and work, and do what they ask.

Linux needs to STOP coming in so many flavors.........when regular people ask "Why doesnt this program for RedHAt Linux work for Ubuntu?  in which some Unix nut will explain.............."Oh it does work.....you just have to change a few binaries!"    

Well of course.............if your a geek.............but 98% of people dont want to bother with that ridiculousness!

that would be the same to try to explain to people that it is cool to use a Shell instead of a GUI.


imagine OSes without GUI's?   there would be about a billion less computer users in the world.


a GUI was the best invention in the world.  And so...........we need to get past that Workbench is just the windowing system that is actually called Intuition and blah blah blah type of junk.     Workbench IS Amigas OS.

Thats what most former Amigans will remember about their Amiga's OS's name:  Workbench