Amiga Workbench advantages over other OSes

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DonnyEMU wrote:
This is totally a useless thread because none of these things are "unique" anymore. They exist elsewhere even on windows.. My F1 key says HELP on it :-)

Then why post to it?  :-?

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Waccoon wrote:
"DEVS:" and "ENV:" were brilliant.

Indeed.  It is that simple modular mentaility that got me hooked on AmigaOS.

The only drawback is that the colon is not very friendly to Internet connections, where it defines the protocol.  Then again, Macs used to use colons as directory separators so you could use slashes in filenames (!), and Apple eventually made the migration to slashes.

Not quite, the colons are still there. There is a bodge whereby they are converted between colon ans slash depending upon which side is looking at it.  I can't remember which one is the native HFS+ character though.

That's why I tell people I want a new OS that works like Workbench, not a refactored AmigaOS.

Why?  Workbench itself was never really anything to write home about, hence why Scalos and DOpus are so popular.  Things like those you mention above were part of the underlying OS not Workbench itself (Workbench was just another program)

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mr_a500 wrote:
For the purposes of this thread Workbench = AmigaOS.

"AmigaOS" makes me have bad memories of 3.5/3.9 (when the term was introduced). I have always known the entire operating system as Workbench, so this is what I like to use. (yes, loadwb loads Workbench which is running on AmigaDOS)

I understand what you mean, my reply was specific to Wacoon's post where he makes a differentiation between the two.

I've always preferred the name Workbench to AmigaOS.  There really wasn't a proper name for the whole system, it was sorta Kickstart+AmigaDOS+Workbench.

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It's a bit nicer than "Amiga ROM Operating System and Libraries" that comes up on 3.1 :-)

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minator wrote:

A standard scripting language - the fact of a standard meant everyone uses it, the lack of a standard scripting language on other systems means they are not used even if their capabilities are better.

Erm, AppleScript? ;-)

Experimental GUIs, this is difficult on other systems but Amigas embraced it back in the day, it didn't always work but some non-standard apps had excellent interfaces.

Non-standard GUIs almost always broke with system upgrades.  In the beginning (pre GadTools) the toolkit was too limited, and developers were forced into rolling thier own.  Thankfully today custom GUIs appear to be the presrve of OEM scanner and printer software.

DOpus 4 (not the later versions).  IMO the highest point of file management applications.

That's an application though not a part of the OS. That's cheating :-)