AmigaOS

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Hardware Platform: Amiga ( motorola 680xx )
Version of OS: Kickstart 1.3 Workbench 1.3 AmigaOS 1.3
HDD footprint: N/A Fits on 880 kb with space to spare
Comments: can't automount hdd
System Requirements: Kickstart 1.3

GUI: Yes, workbench
Multitasking: Yes (and does it very well too)
Multiuser: No
32 bit: 16/32 bit
Networkable: Yes but for NIC demands special equipment
Ease of use(1-10 1=easiest): 5 for GUI 7 for CLI (command line) 4 for command line with Zshell
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Hardware Platform: Amiga ( motorola 680xx )
Version of OS: Kickstart 2.04, workbench 2.1, AmigaOS 2.1
HDD footprint: installs from 4-5 disks?
Comments: can automount HDD
System Requirements: Kickstart 2.04

GUI: Yes, workbench
Multitasking: Yes
Multiuser: No
32 bit: 16/32 bit
Networkable: Yes, but for NIC demands special equipment
Ease of use(1-10 1=easiest): 5 for GUI 7 for CLI (command line) 4 for command line with Zshell
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Both these i'd say are quite nice, in 1.3, use cli if you are short on memory, shell if you can afford to spend memory,

and zshell(mine is 2.9) (check aminet for it) for a nice middleroad (32kb).

Actually i can't praise Zshell highly enough. i use it both under 1.3 and 2.04/2.1, it pretty much fixes all that annoyed me with the amigaOS.

Basically Zshell:

• Adds Filename/directory completion
• Removes the need (to a large extent) for use of resident (as it has 30+ commands built in)
• Adds recursion ( delete -r boot:net/* will clear out anything in boot:net )
• Adds pipes (pseudo and true) (only 2.04)
• Command line history
• Fully editable commandline
• Aliases

Since the early days of Amiga world or what ever the magazine was called, i started liking having Workbench up with a cli window at the bottom of the screen always

To this day on pc's i'll still keep a terminal and/or a dos/cmd window onscreen always (usually both)

Zshell makes that even better, yes i know shell in amigaos1.3 does part of what zshell does, yes, 2.04's shell does even more...the mem cost is HIGHER considering i need to "resident" quite a few commands for it to run even half as fast

powerpacker, pploadseg, muchmorepp and imploder are 4 more i'd say are basics. This is especially true on a floppy based system but otherwise too

powerpacker and imploder are executable compressors
pploadseg is a program that allows you to compress some .library files and still have the system load them and muchmorepp is like muchmore only better and can handle Powerpacked text files (2 medium large txt files and you've saved the size muchmorepp costs you)

Personally i opt to skip amiga workbench's text editor, if i need something small i'll run txed or txedplus and for the larger stuff i'll run ced and very rarely