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AmigaOS was far ahead of its time and really a treasure trove of cool features. Not just on the UI side, most of its contemporaries didn't have loadable and unloadable drivers, pluggable file systems, etc. It's amazing all this even worked without memory protection, but almost all of it did work.
I’d forgotten so much of this stuff. It really was amazing. The IFF file format and data types stuff was fantastic.
It's truly incredible. It was way before I was born, but I'm fascinated by it!
I was a teenager at the time so I got to play with it when it was new. I had the privilege of learning how to code on my Amiga 500. Sadly it was in AmigaBASIC and later AMOS Pro (I even bought the compiler for that) and I never got to using real programming languages until the Amiga was already defunct. I find myself going back now, though, and admiring the OS interfaces in context with much more knowledge. The UI APIs were very lacking compared to today's toolkits, but for the time they were really next level.
That's the same as me. I had Amos and the compiler too. Must have been around the time the company went under, perhaps just before. I didn't know they went under until years after. My parents would not have bought me an expensive PC anyway so I was stuck with what I had, and it was great.