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Offline obscurepanicTopic starter

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AmigaOS and OS/2?
« on: April 21, 2010, 11:23:20 AM »
I do not know much between the histories between the OS component of Classical Amiga and IBM's OS/2. Any insight on this?
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 11:45:43 AM »
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I do not know much between the histories between the OS component of Classical Amiga and IBM's OS/2. Any insight on this?
The two systems are unrelated.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2010, 11:51:31 AM »
Only rexx the scripting language in common.
What I'd like to know is how much MS copied Amiga for Windows 95.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2010, 12:27:35 PM »
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Only rexx the scripting language in common.

Yes - and only the language, not the interpreter. ARexx has lots of amiga specific features, I would guess that the OS/2 rexx interpreter also has lots of OS/2 specific features.

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What I'd like to know is how much MS copied Amiga for Windows 95.

That's easy - nothing.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2010, 12:54:14 PM »
Something I was thinking lately is whether Microsoft copied an idea from magic workbench for their Windows7!? In this programs can be started from BIG icons on the taskbar. This is very similar to Magic Workbench; http://www.sasg.com/pic/mwb_preview.gif

However I am not sure if maybe this idea was copied from somewhere else before!?
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2010, 12:57:27 PM »
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Only rexx the scripting language in common.
What I'd like to know is how much MS copied Amiga for Windows 95.


Sorry but MS copied Apple :/
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2010, 01:27:19 PM »
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Something I was thinking lately is whether Microsoft copied an idea from magic workbench for their Windows7!? In this programs can be started from BIG icons on the taskbar. This is very similar to Magic Workbench; http://www.sasg.com/pic/mwb_preview.gif

However I am not sure if maybe this idea was copied from somewhere else before!?
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Apple got their dock thru NEXTSTEP btw ;-)
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2010, 01:32:13 PM »
I still laugh at Breadbox Ensemble 4.x, tho the GEOS for IBM PC was head of MS, but seriously 4.x released in 2001? not a littlebit late?

Hmm win9x look anyone? ;)
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2010, 01:48:52 PM »
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Apple got their dock thru NEXTSTEP btw ;-)

And "big buttons" as such has nothing to with Magic Workbench - those are ToolManager docks. Sources are available, allthough only for educational purposes, according to readme.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2010, 03:19:31 PM »
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I still laugh at Breadbox Ensemble 4.x, tho the GEOS for IBM PC was head of MS, but seriously 4.x released in 2001? not a littlebit late?


I remember trying GEOS for IBM, still have a copy somewhere.  It was very resource friendly (ran on a 8088?).  I was far more impressed with its design philosophy than I was with Windows 3.x.  Unfortunately, it was completely proprietary and difficult to get it to front the whole world of non-GEOS software.  

Had the authors made it compatible with all existing software, computer history might be very different today.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2010, 03:28:03 PM »
Pretty interesting article from OS News about GEOS.

GEOS: The Graphical Environment Operating System
http://www.osnews.com/story/15223

And just about everyone is copying that START buttong, task bar, tray clock design we see from Windows 95.  Personally, we hates it, my Precious.  I much prefer drop-downs.  Though I have to admit that I have been using AmiDock since installing 3.9.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2010, 03:28:09 PM »
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I remember trying GEOS for IBM, still have a copy somewhere.  It was very resource friendly (ran on a 8088?).  I was far more impressed with its design philosophy than I was with Windows 3.x.  Unfortunately, it was completely proprietary and difficult to get it to front the whole world of non-GEOS software.  

Had the authors made it compatible with all existing software, computer history might be very different today.


So true, they where quite good with both multitasking and resource manegment, tho they 2001 release was to much for me ;) I could not get why they did that.
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2010, 05:57:35 PM »
If MS had copied Amiga for win95, I'd presume the thing would actually have bloody worked at times
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2010, 06:15:26 PM »
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What I'd like to know is how much MS copied Amiga for Windows 95.


At least compression method for its .CAB files ;)
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Re: AmigaOS and OS/2?
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2010, 06:24:27 PM »
What compression does Amiga use on it's CAB files?

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At least compression method for its .CAB files ;)
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