AmigaOS
Sign in to saveAmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. It was developed first by Commodore International and introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. Early versions of AmigaOS required the Motorola 68000 series of 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors. Later versions, after Commodore's demise, were developed by Haage & Partner (AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9) and then Hyperion Entertainment (AmigaOS 4.0-4.1). A PowerPC microprocessor is required for the most recent AmigaOS 4-release. Version 4.1 added 64-bit file system support
Key facts
- OS.name
- AmigaOS
- OS.logo
- Commodore-amiga-569580.png
- OS.logo_size
- 50px
- OS.screenshot
- AmigaOS4.png
- OS.caption
- Screenshot of AmigaOS 4.0
- OS.family
- Amiga
- OS.working_state
- Current
- OS.source_model
- Closed source
- OS.latest_release_version
- 4.1 Final Edition Update 3
- OS.supported_platforms
- M68K: versions 1.0 through 3.9PowerPC: versions 4.0 through 4.1
- OS.kernel_type
- Microkernel
- OS.ui
- Graphical (Workbench)
- OS.programmed_in
- 68k assembly language (PowerPC assembly in 4.x), C; for version 1.x BCPL
- OS.license
- Proprietary
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Encyclopedic overview
30 sectionsContents
- Legal situation
- AmigaOS variants
- Amiga equipped with various PowerPC processors
- Amiga equipped with various m68k-processors
- Components
- Firmware and bootloader
- Kernel
- AmigaDOS
- Graphical user interface
- File manager
- Features
- Graphics
- Audio
- Storage
- Scripting
- Technical overview
- Libraries and devices
- Handlers, AmigaDOS and filesystems
- Memory paging and a swap partition in later versions
- Versions
- AmigaOS 1.0 – 1.4
- AmigaOS 2.0, 2.1
- AmigaOS 3.0, 3.1
- AmigaOS 3.5, 3.9
- AmigaOS 3.1.4, 3.2
- AmigaOS 4.0, 4.1
- Influence on other operating systems
- See also
- References
- External links
AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. It was developed first by Commodore International and introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. Early versions of AmigaOS required the Motorola 68000 series of 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors. Later versions, after Commodore's demise, were developed by Haage & Partner (AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9) and then Hyperion Entertainment (AmigaOS 4.0-4.1). A PowerPC microprocessor is required for the most recent AmigaOS 4-release. Version 4.1 added 64-bit file system support, while the CPU support remains 32-bit.
AmigaOS is a single-user operating system based on a preemptive multitasking kernel, called Exec. It includes an abstraction of the Amiga's hardware, a disk operating system called AmigaDOS, a windowing system API called Intuition, and a desktop environment and file manager called Workbench.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AmigaOS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.