windows = workbench

[Tomas]

3246251196 wrote:
pcs boot into windows (there are a lot of variations, but lets use windows). from there you can mess around - transfer data etc

now, amigas boot into workbench (if you can set that from hardrive - never had one)... so, is this workbench the windows equivalent. if its on the hardrive does it boot stragith into WB?

It does boot straight into WB even on a old a500 when using a HD. The boot time for stock amigaos/wb is only a few seconds as well, so it is really fast. I think that Workbench/AmigaOS is superiour to even Windows9x/ME and it still have quite a few advantages over modern Win2k/XP as well. The main thing AmigaOS lacks is decent memory protection, so if a application crashes there it will take down the whole OS in many cases. The new OS4 is way better at that area, but it still is not fully implemented.

[Tomas]

I see Workbench as old Windows. Like Windows 95 and earlier. AmigaDos is running the show and Workbench sits on top of that. In the older versions of Workbench there were some things you had to do from the command prompt.

I dont really agree. AmigaDOS and WB is heavily integrated into eachother and both is basicly the OS. Win9x was more of a half written OS running ontop of another outdated 16bit OS. I dunno if you can even call windows9x for a real OS.

The graphical part of AmigaOS is already loaded when you are in amigados.