AmigaDOS
Sign in to saveAmigaDOS is the disk operating system of the AmigaOS, which includes file systems, file and directory manipulation, the command-line interface, and file redirection.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1985 software, AmigaOS and Disk operating systems.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- disk operating system
- Subclass of
- operating system
- Part of
- AmigaOS
- Follows
- TRIPOS
- Based on
- TRIPOS
- Developer
- Commodore International
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- used by
- AmigaOS
- different from
- AmigaOS
- copyright license
- proprietary license
- programmed in
- BCPL
- software version identifier
- 4.0
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Console
- Syntax of AmigaDOS commands
- Command redirection
- Command template
- Breaking commands and pausing console output
- Wildcard characters
- Filename characters
- Scripting
- Protection bits
- Local and global variables
- Case sensitivity
- Volume naming conventions
- Conventions of names and typical behaviour of virtual devices
- File systems
- Official variants of Amiga filesystems
- FastFileSystem2 plug-ins
- Filename extensions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
AmigaDOS is the disk operating system of the AmigaOS, which includes file systems, file and directory manipulation, the command-line interface, and file redirection.
In AmigaOS 1.x, AmigaDOS is based on a TRIPOS port by MetaComCo, written in BCPL. BCPL does not use native pointers, so the more advanced functionality of the operating system was difficult to use and error-prone. The third-party AmigaDOS Resource Project (ARP, formerly the AmigaDOS Replacement Project), a project begun by Amiga developer Charlie Heath, replaced many of the BCPL utilities with smaller, more sophisticated equivalents written in C and assembler, and provided a wrapper library, arp.library. This eliminated the interfacing problems in applications by automatically performing conversions from native pointers (such as those used by C or assembler) to BCPL equivalents and vice versa for all AmigaDOS functions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AmigaDOS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.