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AmigaOS Maintenance

AmigaOS
KindOperating system
Appeared1985
StatusMaintenance
CreatorCarl Sassenrath / Commodore
FamilyIndependent
PlatformAmiga (68k, PPC)
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

Sassenrath's preemptive microkernel in 1985 — multimedia before the word existed, message-passing before it was cool; version 3.2 shipped in 2021.

Ran on Amiga 1000
Created by Carl Sassenrath Amiga Corporation

AmigaOS (1985) — Carl Sassenrath's Exec kernel plus Intuition — was a preemptive multitasking OS on a 7 MHz 68000 with 256K of RAM: message-passing windows, a GUI when that was a Mac thing, and graphics hardware no rival matched.\n\nCommodore shipped it through 3.9 (2000); the community continued through Hyperion's AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC, 2008) and the still-maintained 3.2 line.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/commodore/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS