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And mirroring aswansons's comment[1] above: One of my best memories was Christmas 1985, waking up to my dad fiddling with the A1000 in the living room. He lear

And mirroring aswansons's comment[1] above: One of my best memories was Christmas 1985, waking up to my dad fiddling with the A1000 in the living room. He learned enough from the ComputerLand salesman to type `dpaint` at the `AmigaDOS>` prompt and launch the coolest thing[2] I'd ever seen. That computer was my only machine from 1985 through 1997, when I finally got a secondhand 486DX2-66 to replace it. It wasn't until well into the 2000s that I had a computer that could do the things I could do with that Amiga. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9894641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9894641 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint#/media/File:Amiga_1000DP.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint#/media/File:Amiga...

vardump 11y ago
I still remember my reaction to Windows 95. "So finally Amiga-like long file names and plug and play like with Amiga Zorro bus. But why it doesn't still let me to rename volumes as something else than single drive letters C, D, E... etc.?" My 1995 self would have been so disappointed to hear Windows is still stuck to drive letters in 2015.
- ekianjo 11y ago
  Never too late to switch to Linux. As an ex Amiga fan Linux is the closest I can get to what the Amiga could do.
  - vardump 11y ago
    Pretty much OS agnostic these days. Nowadays it's OS X or Windows + Linux VMs and remote servers.
    - ekianjo 11y ago
      You can't customize anything much OSX and Windows, though. The tweakability is not just there like what we had in AmigaOS.
      - vardump 11y ago
        I know. When I care, I use Linux. I do remember AmigaOS tweakability, it's still unmatched by anything modern.
- nitrogen 11y ago
  I've been using Linux as my primary desktop nearly continuously since 1999, and I'm typing this in Linux right now, but for what it's worth, you can now mount volumes in Windows as a path on another volume.
  - vardump 11y ago
    The difference might seem subtle, but on Amiga you could refer to volumes as "Volume name": like WorkDisk:. Then whenever anything referred to say WorkDisk:dir/file, the system would request you to provide this volume, "WorkDisk". So mounting a filesystem to a directory is not same. When directories are mounted, you need to provide volume first and then you can refer to it. You could name some USB stick as "Important Files": and whenever you copy or save anything to drive "Important Files": the system would ask you to provide this named volume.
    - nitrogen 11y ago
      Nice. That's way better than DOS's old "Insert disk for drive B:" message or whatever it was to fake having two floppy drives.

vardump 11y ago

I still remember my reaction to Windows 95. "So finally Amiga-like long file names and plug and play like with Amiga Zorro bus. But why it doesn't still let me to rename volumes as something else than single drive letters C, D, E... etc.?" My 1995 self would have been so disappointed to hear Windows is still stuck to drive letters in 2015.

ekianjo 11y ago
Never too late to switch to Linux. As an ex Amiga fan Linux is the closest I can get to what the Amiga could do.
- vardump 11y ago
  Pretty much OS agnostic these days. Nowadays it's OS X or Windows + Linux VMs and remote servers.
  - ekianjo 11y ago
    You can't customize anything much OSX and Windows, though. The tweakability is not just there like what we had in AmigaOS.
    - vardump 11y ago
      I know. When I care, I use Linux. I do remember AmigaOS tweakability, it's still unmatched by anything modern.
nitrogen 11y ago
I've been using Linux as my primary desktop nearly continuously since 1999, and I'm typing this in Linux right now, but for what it's worth, you can now mount volumes in Windows as a path on another volume.
- vardump 11y ago
  The difference might seem subtle, but on Amiga you could refer to volumes as "Volume name": like WorkDisk:. Then whenever anything referred to say WorkDisk:dir/file, the system would request you to provide this volume, "WorkDisk". So mounting a filesystem to a directory is not same. When directories are mounted, you need to provide volume first and then you can refer to it. You could name some USB stick as "Important Files": and whenever you copy or save anything to drive "Important Files": the system would ask you to provide this named volume.
  - nitrogen 11y ago
    Nice. That's way better than DOS's old "Insert disk for drive B:" message or whatever it was to fake having two floppy drives.