What Operating System does the Amiga use?
The Amiga uses AmigaOS, a unique OS with special advantages. It’s extremely compact and still powerful and thus especially fast. It was the first operating system with Multitasking and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in color for the mass market. AmigaOS is modularly designed and consists primarily of function libraries. It can get expanded with new libraries at any time, very easily and in a system compliant way. This makes the AmigaOS extremely flexible. AmigaOS had time to mature for over 10 years now. During this time there were several version upgrades with big enhancements of its functionality. But still AmigaOS grew faster with every new version because of increased efficiency! Flexible, compact, fast – the attributes of a truly modern operating system. • What’s special about the multitasking of the AmigaOS? AmigaOS features preemptive multitasking. This means a program does not need to be explicitly designed for multitasking and still it works effectively together with many ot
