Amiga OS4.0 for Classic Amigas is now available. "ACube Systems Srl is pleased to to announce the immediate availability of the awaited AmigaOS 4.0 for Amiga 1200, 3000(T) or 4000(T) with a PowerPC CPU, developed by Hyperion Entertainment VOF. It is now possible to benefit of all the features of this new AmigaOS release, an operating system famous for its efficiency and small footprint. AmigaOS 4.0, thanks to its power and optimization, succeeds in using at the maximum even systems running at 160Mhz, allowing the multimedia performances and the usability everyone expects from AmigaOS."
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Member since:2005-07-07
It's lovely it had it first, but that doesn't mean it does it best - firefox had tabbed browsing before Konqueror, but konqi does it better. EG scrollwheel scrolls through tabs, you can dragn'ndrop tabs between windows or detach them, I want 'undo close tab', etcetera.
Of course, I want tabbed filebrowsing as well. And splitscreen functionality as well.
Same goes for the multiple desktops - I just use 4 of them, so the ability to have 100 I don't care about. But I do care about being able to drag windows from one desktop to another, both using the window itself and via the widget which shows the desktops. And of course with a 'send to desktop' right mouse menu.
Stuff like that ;-)
Member since:2005-07-29
On AmigaOS the desktop is another app, you can have various diferent desktops at the same time (there are various desktop replacements and workbench itīs the official that comes with the OS).Every app can be opened in their own screen or can be opened in every avaliable screen, and can be changed to another screen.An every screen can have their own resolution and color depth
Edited 2007-12-03 10:40
Member since:2006-06-15
Funny... You seem to have had no contact with WB at all, and you don't realize that all the things you're enumerating were already done years ago on Amiga.
I think there's a culture shock here, which might explain why you can live your little dream without noticing the big world around.
To help you understand, to us you look like a Windows-user would be like for you when he would candidly explain how superior Windows XP is to any other OS because it has a mouse - and you can even put icons on the desktop!
I stopped using Amigas in 96, when I got my first PC and went straight to Debian+Wmaker (and even though it's old, Wmaker still does think more efficiently than KDE, especially usability-wise). However, I still have a memory, and I know the world didn't appear suddenly round the year 2000.
Member since:
2006-08-13
"I'd say I like good tabbed browsing in my browser."
IBrowse had tabs something like 10 years ago 
Amiga IBrowse was one of the first web-browsers which had tabbed browsing
"multiple desktops"
The wery first released AmigaOS version had screens. already in the 1985