Tenacious wrote:
@ Floyd
I think Amiga's history might have been much better if Commodore could have evolved and released OS2.1 a few years earlier than it did.
Not really, Workbench 2 was nice, but the hardware development was always the core problem with C=. I mean they started work on AAA in what '88 or '89? And only by about '92-'93 did they actually have vaguely workable prototype boards still with major showstoppers that needed a lot of work to 'iron out'.
AAA and the 'acutiator' architecture that went with it should have been completed and put into Amigas by at the latest 1991, at that point it just might have been enough to stop C= from haemorrhaging money. But of course Gould could still have found a way to screw it up somehow.
@ chsedge: yes, those things existed before that, I'm well aware of the Mac's crummy GUI and several other already existed. Also, I was aware of at least the multi-tasking version of CP/M called MP/M. But were the 'modern' concepts used in AOS actually all implemented in an OS 'whole-cloth' before AOS?
