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Coherent required a harddrive, which was an expensive upgrade for home users at the time. The Amiga 1000 also came with half the RAM of the Commodore 900. The
by Findecanor 3y ago
Coherent required a harddrive, which was an expensive upgrade for home users at the time. The Amiga 1000 also came with half the RAM of the Commodore 900.
The Amiga was originally supposed to have got another disk operating system, called "CAOS" but the company hired to develop it failed to deliver, so Metacomco was hired to port TRIPOS to the Amiga in time for release (as "Amiga DOS" / dos.library).
CAOS was supposedly supposed to be more Unix-like than the AmigaDOS we got: in file names, protection (with user IDs!) and in command syntax.
<https://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/caos.html https://www.devili.iki.fi/mirrors/haynie/caos.html>
- rbanffy 3y agoA full Coherent install would, but I'm sure it can be slimmed down to a kernel, a libc and an init system that would fit in a floppy. I learned C on a PC/XT running QNX from a floppy containing the kernel, just enough OS to run, vi, and a C compiler/linker.