Amiga Workbench advantages over other OSes

[Azryl]

When you have cd filesystem installed you get on the workbench a CD image/icon once the cd-disk is initialized, valid file format is read and the disk.icon found and displayed! Woot.. wtg WorkBench!

Also, a feature of WorkBench 3.1 was smart window refresh! amazing, when a window with text is displayed UNDER another window, it smart refreshes all text in that window!

No more Micro$oft Winblowz large blank rectangular random colour on display until the OS decides a screen refresh should happen...  hmmm 30 seconds later maybe? whats the rush, its only the working screen area the user needs :-p

Az

[Azryl]

who could forget... Amiga OS and WorkBench are VOLUME sensative.. you can path to not only device but also to volume, no other OS I know of has this ability!

Yay for Amiga :-)

Az

[Azryl]

I think the GREATEST advantage of Amiga/WorkBench was that it was OPEN. All of the Rom Kernals and libraries and devices were available for a programmer to read thru, digest and use or improve upon. This was a major reason Amiga really was so popular and so many great utilities/demos/games/programs/artworks were produced.

No matter which version of DOS, WorkBench or Kickstart Rom you owned, you could buy the manuals, guides and books to help you discover the power of the OS/hardware

This is the real reason I love Amiga!

Windows and MacOS can go jump, any company that keeps secrets and closes knowledge from the people paying them money for that product have to be hiding something.. incompitence maybe?  :-P

Az