Help! AmigaDOS info?
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I'm a senior CS student hoping to write two papers on AmigaDOS… Can
anyone point me toward info?
I'm interested in general overviews of the OS, and also more detailed info
such as memory management, deadlock management, file and I/O systems, and
the object-oriented aspect of AmigaDOS.
Thanks for any help or suggestions!
– Jonathan
Jonathan, I would suggest that you look at some of the technical magazines
for the Amiga. Currently, there are AMIGAWORLD TECH JOURNAL and AMAZING
COMPUTING TECH JOURNAL. Some time ago, there were two others: AMIGA
APPRENTICE AND JOURNEYMAN and TRANSACTOR. Of course, all of these things
are explained in the Rom Kernal Manuals which you can buy at most
bookstores (they are not cheap!). The best overview I read was one that
came out very early – about 1986 – called THE KICKSTART GUIDE TO THE AMIGA,
published by Ariadne in England.
Betty
Betty, thank you for the suggestions!
If (_when_, I'm sure) I run into questions on the OS, they be posted in
section 8?
– Jonathan
We'll do our best to answer any questions. If you get them in the wrong
section, we can move them to the right one, though it is a bit easier if
you put them there in the first place.
Would you do one more thing for us, please? We use a full name policy here
in the message base, so we'd appareciate it if you would stop at the forum!
prompt, type OPT (or options), select name, and type your full first and
last name there. Thanks.
Betty
Sir:
Needless to say, I (and I suspect many others) would be interested in the
very overview you describe — when my Win3 friends ask me to describe the
Amiga programming environment, I have no easy answer -not the first-chapter
introduction for people who are about to make a career out of it, nor the
broad-brush light-weight overview for users, but a sensible, sophisticated
discussion of the relative pros and cons of the OS design…. Keep us
posted!
There was also an article in Byte sometime last year that gave
information I think you would find most useful. I really can't remember
much about it but it was written by one or more 'Amiga Notables'. Carl
Sassenrath(?) comes to mind.
– via Whap!