Often the software and OS APIs on that system are glossed over in favor of the hardware or the graphical shell. The Exec[1] was a marvel at the time -- and in

Often the software and OS APIs on that system are glossed over in favor of the hardware or the graphical shell. The Exec[1] was a marvel at the time -- and in some ways, still is. I don't know how much ARexx[2] preceeded AppleScript, but it was also, something that other OSes seldom got right. It took other user-oriented operating systems about a decade to catch up, and in fact, the hardware everyone raves about in the Amiga fell behind far sooner than the system software. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exec_(Amiga) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exec_(Amiga) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx