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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« on: April 02, 2011, 03:05:10 AM »
Aside from the games, it's using a system that I know I can truly understand, from the hardware all the way up to the OS.
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2011, 04:49:01 AM »
Quote from: runequester;626800
Thats one of the nice things. For a commercial OS, they documented the hell out of everything, down to how everything worked. Very nice.
And they did it beautifully, to boot. The Amiga documentation is just about the best technical writing I've ever had the good fortune to read :)
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2011, 04:08:41 PM »
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One thing I could never figure out is why they added more letters to the drives, A: is a lot easier to type than df0: and the sentences they used to make a diskcopy or copy a file. Later it just came natural and never noticed the extra key steps.
I like the Amiga's approach better because (like the Unix/Linux /devs directory) it provides a coherent, standard approach to enumerating physical storage devices, and it also provides access-by-volume-label, which is woefully underused. Single letters are convenient until you're choosing from half a dozen partitions and drives and trying to remember which is which without looking it up.

The extra verbage in some of the commands, though, is pretty unnecessary.
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2011, 05:45:12 PM »
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A machine I can write high or low level code on and still enjoy it to the extent that it doesn't even faze me when I crash it :D
Word.
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2011, 05:59:23 PM »
Heh :D
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