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What is the name of the OS?
« on: March 19, 2010, 11:50:49 AM »
Hi,

I have been keeping this question for a long time trying to better understand what is the real name of the operating system developed by Amiga / Commodore!

Basically when I was a child I always remember that the name was "Workbench", i.e. - Workbench 2.1, Workbench 3.1, etc. At that age I never heard my brother or cousin refer to the os as AmigaOS 2.1 or AmigaOS 3.1 - it was always Workbench.

Then when I came to the community I started to see that 4.0 and 4.1 (and to some extent also 3.9) was mostly referred to as AmigaOS. At first I thought nothing of this, and considered this just a name change due to the fact that Amiga moved hands.

However then when reading wikipedia I see that is was always referred to as AmigaOS from version 1.0.

So my question is; Was AmigaOS ever referred to officially as Workbench? Or Workbench is just part of the OS? i.e. the environment?
 

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Re: What is the name of the OS?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2010, 12:45:43 PM »
Thanks :) a very good read. Things are more clear now.