AmigaOS
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amigaos本身是运行在amiga机器上的操作系统,它于1985年面世，是第一个提供真彩色的操作系统。成为了快速，高分辨率图形的代名词。它特别适合于玩游戏。 AmigaOS处理32位指令，使用抢先式多任务方法，它几乎可以被称为一种实时操作系统了。目前使用这种机型人越来越少,在x86平台上有很多amiga模拟器。
因为Amiga的专用性，amigaos使用C和汇编开发，而且十分紧凑，它的所有版本都可以在512K内存的情况下运行。Amiga支持即插即用，可以模拟Windows和Mac OS。Amiga在锁定外信息源的情况下可以当做视频监视器使用。Amiga使用LINUX作为基本核心。在1999年9月，Amiga的CEO兼总裁 Thomas J. Schmidt表示它的机器不久会在不同的平台和操作系统下运行。
1993年当amiga初显颓势时，它的一些爱好者建立的aors项目，意图修正amigaos中的瑕疵，提高人们对它的认可度；1995年, aaron digulla正式开始了aros的编写。发展到今天，兼容amigaos 3.1的aros已能在包括x86平台在内的很多机型上运行。aros几乎每天都有新的试用版放出，最近的稳定版为aros [nov-25-2003]
官方网站 http://aros.sourceforge.net/
下载 http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php
The "Classic Amiga Operating System" known as AmigaOS originally targeted the desktop computing market. It was built around tightly integrated hardware and software. The hardware was originally based on proprietary chips running the Motorola 68000 series of processors. The software was the AmigaOS - multimedia, multi-threaded and multi-tasking. This combination of hardware and software produced a very fast, powerful and easy to use computing platform. Over 5 million Amiga computers were sold.
The Amiga platform was readily adopted by the television, motion picture and video game development communities. This system was the enabler for the birth of Newtek's Video Toaster - the first real-time video editing system. AmigaOS was also the first commercially available operating system to implement pre-emptive multitasking.
Over the years the computing industry moved from proprietary hardware to pluggable components. Stability and security became critical concerns for all operating systems. Support for 3D and easy access to and through the Internet drove development. Amiga responded to these market changes by developing and/or licensing development for OS 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9.
In 2001, Amiga, Inc. licensed the development of AmigaOS 4.0 to AmigaOne Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. Now scheduled for commercial release in early 2005, AmigaOS 4.0 moves the Amiga Operating System to the modern Power PC chips enabling the easy use of off-the-shelf components from third party vendors. True to its heritage, AmigaOS 4.0 remains small, fast and robust.
Over 40,000 applications have been written for devices running AmigaOS. Many, perhaps the majority, are available for AmigaOS 4.0 users.
AmigaOne Partners have the right to distribute AmigaOS 4.0 into the AmigaOne desktop computer market and into Cyberstorm PPC enabled devices. Distribution into any other market or device requires a licensing and distribution agreement with Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc. does not distribute or support AmigaOS 4.0. For information on product availability, support, local dealers or resellers, please contact AmigaOne Partners through either Hyperion VOF or Eyetech Ltd.
For information on licensing, adaptation or modification of any existing Amiga Operating System, please contact, technologylicensing@amiga.com
Please note, the development of future versions of the Amiga Operating System is not available for third party development or distribution.http://www.amiga.com/amigaos/
