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Re: windows = workbench
« on: March 31, 2006, 04:43:33 PM »
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Thomas wrote:
The Amiga's operating always consisted of two parts: the Kicktart ROM and several files on disk, one of them being the command to load Workbench. At some time people started to call the entire disk part of the operating system Workbench.


Actually, I've called it Workbench since I got my A1000 in October of 85.  If you booted the 1000 it asks first for the Kickstart disk and then the Workbench.  I think the AmigaOS has ALWAYS been referred to as Workbench!

Bob