Regarding the naming of new A-eon systems

[yssing]

Yes, its true that one disc did indeed say "Workbench", but then the others said something else "Extras", "Locale" and so on.

[Boot_WB]

Aha! I think that's the one I had (although mine was minus the outer sleeve, so just the white box).

[som99]

Yes, its true that one disc did indeed say "Workbench", but then the others said something else "Extras", "Locale" and so on.

I know, I just stated that it might be a reason why people Think it's named Workbench at v3.x because they havent seen/had the box and there is no text on the floppies what so ever that says Amiga OS so quite easy to missunderstand then also if you boot from the Workbench floppy takes you to the OS so as said easy to understand confusion since previous versions of the OS was named Workbench and now as Before there is a floppy named just that and it boots you to OS as before....

[wawrzon]

Who cares about a missing whitespace in the name?
Really if it all boils down to that, then I guess that "haters will be haters" is true in this case.

so all those people who refuxe to buy "chanal no5" and "niki" or "adedas" shoes are "haters" to you? well perhaps, why not buy this crap? but lets buy it for what it is.

[wawrzon]

btw. my last proposal is "a 800", then everybody will know, it is a fake!

[yssing]

I know, I just stated that it might be a reason why people Think it's named Workbench at v3.x because they havent seen/had the box and there is no text on the floppies what so ever that says Amiga OS so quite easy to missunderstand then also if you boot from the Workbench floppy takes you to the OS so as said easy to understand confusion since previous versions of the OS was named Workbench and now as Before there is a floppy named just that and it boots you to OS as before....

I see, I missunderstood your post then.
But you might very well be right.

[som99]

I see, I missunderstood your post then.
But you might very well be right.

No problems I have a tendency to formulate what I say a bit strange now and then when typing in English ^^

[Tripitaka]

Yeah, my mistake. I am an Amiga user. So called real Amigan.

Because if it ain't a real Amiga it's heresy! Sheesh, with that attitude we.......
....oh why am I even bothering to type a reply, I know it's just not worth the effort.

[Tripitaka]

What is it?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ambient

Amazing this search thingy. Ain't progress great.

[agami]

Naming or rather Branding something is not the same as referring to something.

A large portion of the user base referred to the OS as Workbench. It was the clearest and most visible labelling of the OS for most users.

Commodore/Amiga referred to the operating system (OS) for the Amiga as OS n.n If you look at the box it is clear that it is named OS 3.1 and is intended for the AMIGA line of computers.

AMIGA
OS 3.1

not

Amiga OS
3.1

The brand and the trademark was AMIGA. Branding the OS was not part of Commodore business practices, and for that matter was not part of the business practice of most computer hardware manufactures, e.g. Apple never branded the System OS.

I see the move to brand the Amiga OS as "Amiga OS" in the late '90s as a direct response to Apple branding their System OS as "Mac OS" when they launched the new iMac with Mac OS 8.

What I did like is that Apple embraced the popular and endearing term for Macintosh computers; Mac. I have held the opinion since then to this very day that Escom/AT and/or Gateway/Amiga Inc. should have embraced "Workbench" as the OS branding. I know it's only a portion of the overall OS suite, but it's what most of us called it anyway.

And BTW, it's not like they were going to make Amiga OS an independent product that could run on other systems, like Schmyperion does.

[psxphill]

A large portion of the user base referred to the OS as Workbench. It was the clearest and most visible labelling of the OS for most users.

I'd say most users referred to kickstart when they were talking about the OS. Even though kickstart really is just the bootstrap part, the rom just happens to contain a load of devices and libraries so they don't have to be included on a floppy disk (saves time loading, space on disk and ram).
 
Commodore didn't really have a name for the whole thing
 
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/amiga-commodore/Amiga_Release_2_Getting_Started.pdf
 
Amiga Release 2
Getting Started



What is 2.0?
Version 2.0 is the result of intensive effort by Commodore to bring
the Amiga operating system to a new level of functionality.




The following section highlights differences between the 2.0 sys
tem software and that of Version 1.3. If you are familiar with 1.3,
you can use this section as a quick overview of what is new. Consult
the Using the System Software manual on how to use the new or
changed features.
In addition, certain potential problem areas related to updating a
1.3 system to a 2.0 system are discussed in the Troubleshooting
section. Please read these two sections carefully to help your 1.3 -
2.0 transition process go as smoothly as possible.


So it's system software, operating system, 2.0, 2.0 system, Amiga release 2..

[wawrzon]

@agami, psxphill

very good posts

[yssing]

And BTW, it's not like they were going to make Amiga OS an independent product that could run on other systems, like Schmyperion does.

Not intirely true, since they were moving towards PA-RISC and away from 68k. They also sold licenses to clone manufactures.

So its not unlikely that they would have been, sooner or later, selling Amiga OS as a seperate product. Pure speculation though, we all know the history.

[QuikSanz]

And it turns out, most were wrong again, X5000/ it is. So much time wasted on nothing.
What problem will be invented next? Stay tuned to the soap opera.

Chris