Its OS is more *nix based than windows or mac preX, so if you are familiar with *nix or osX, then go for it!
Greg
And finally, the Amiga's OS has nothing whatsoever to do with *nix. Carl Sassenrath and RJ Mical, among others, developed the Amiga's executive kernel and Workbench GUI from scratch to go with Jay Miner's finest hour in terms of hardware design. In 1985 the Amiga had a true, 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking operating system with 4096 colors, four 8bit sound channels and a gracefully integrated GUI/command line environment. Apple thought Amiga would slay them, but Commodore's management effeciently kept that from happening :-(( Just imagine if Jobs had left in 1989 or so and Scully et. al. had been running the show ever since with Jobs never coming back..
OK, Amiga rant over :-)
Bolton
I was just referring to the general constructs of the CLI (aka shell), some of the naming conventions and usage. AREXX, memacs, etc have more of a *nix foundation than windows or macos. I worked my way through 13 years of Amigas until I switched my primary platform to the mac. I, too, still have boxes of those amazing graphic demos as well as my own creations from DPaint and Sculpt3D.
Greg
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