c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) (05/31/91)
In article <22009@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > money in the early 80s, when game machines were hot. If the Amiga were really > intended as an 80's answer to the C64 and Atari 800, it would have come with > an operating system similar to that of those machines; one step behind MS-DOS > instead of two or more steps ahead. And C= would have two or three programmers Hmmm. AmigaDOS as we know it, was developed after Commodore bought Amiga, Inc. and was, as I understand it, one of Commodore's big contributions. It, along with things like ZorroII, came out of Commodore, not Amiga, Inc. If they had not run into financial trouble, what kind of OS did J. Miner and the gang at Amiga, Inc. have in mind for the Loraine? Did they intend for it to be a bit Atari 800? Eric Edwards: c506634 @ "I say we take off and nuke the entire site Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet -- Sigourney Weaver, _Aliens_
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (06/03/91)
In article <c506634.3334@umcvmb.missouri.edu> c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) writes: >In article <22009@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >Hmmm. AmigaDOS as we know it, was developed after Commodore bought Amiga, >Inc. and was, as I understand it, one of Commodore's big contributions. Keep in mind that the DOS subsystem (eg, AmigaDOS, "dos.library", CLI, etc.) was just about the last piece to go in place. This did happen after C= bought Amiga, though the action mainly took place between Amiga in Los Gatos and Metacomco in England. >It, along with things like ZorroII, came out of Commodore, not Amiga, Inc. The Zorro II specification was completed after Commodore bought Amiga, but it was done in Los Gatos. Commodore folks did the later systems work: A500, A2000, A2500, A3000, and Zorro III. There are still a few people from the Los Gatos gang consulting here and there in software and chip design, but the all current Amiga work is centered in West Chester at Commodore. >If they had not run into financial trouble, what kind of OS did J. Miner >and the gang at Amiga, Inc. have in mind for the Loraine? Again, the OS they were working on is what we got. The DOS related components are different. Andy Finkel wrote an article for Amiga Transactor about the original "CAOS" DOS subsystem. >Did they intend for it to be a bit Atari 800? Nothing of the kind. CAOS was apparently more advanced than AmigaDOS in some ways. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.