Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Sep 2002 20:26 UTC, submitted by Gareth
AROS, the AmigaOS clone which is being developed by Amiga enthousiasts, and who many regard it as the real future of the AmigaOS, now includes a simple WorkBench clone. Screenshots are available.
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> Amiga OS was first designed for the A1000 with 256KB
> memory later versions could use up to 16MB.
All most common classic Amiga models could be easily upgraded to 128 MB RAM by the usage of expansion boards. (Even the old 1987 A2000 and still sold A1200/A4000 models)
> It's small because there is no bloat, no useless
> features.
The fundamental OS is very bloatless and efficient while offering many, many more unique features not found on rival platforms (while maintaining a much smaller code size). However you could easily add whatever useless feature you can find on other OSes.
Equivalent programs on AmigaOS are mostly always alot smaller than on rival platforms (often by a factor of 10!) because Amiga developers are excellent coders who optimise their code as much to perfection as possible and the fact that 68k code is about half the size of PPC code.