itix wrote:
Is AmigaOS really mean and lean because of its design philosophy or is it more to do with its situation?
Kickstart 3.1 was shipped with six DD floppies
My Kickstart 3.1 was 1 ROM chip for each of my A500s and two ROM chips for A1200 or A4000.
What came on six disks was OS3.1 (Workbench 3.1)...
itix wrote:
and you could boot to full Workbench from single floppy. It ran on an Amiga 500 (68000/7MHz) with 1MB RAM.
I can remember when I had the OS running, "Kind Words" was printing an huge document in the background, "ACall" was downloading something from an BBS in the background for quite a while, "Reflections" was rendering an image in the background while I was playing a game - and all that on my basic A500 with 512kB CHIPMEM...
itix wrote:
Try this with HP's OS 3.5 or 3.9!
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As far as I remember OS3.5 and OS3.9 require an 68020 CPU and an CD-ROM drive.
A standard A500 doesn't have this - you would have to expand it first to run one of the mentioned OS versions.
