* AmigaOS-Operating system for the Amiga range ; multitasking, microkernel, GUI

* Ukiah resident Carl Sassenrath introduced multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system.

He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is currently the designer of the REBOL computer language as well as the CTO of REBOL Technologies.

As a sophisticated computer for its day ( Amiga used 25 DMA channels and a coprocessor ), Sassenrath decided to create a preemptive multitasking operating system within a microkernel design.

Some of the earliest operating systems available to home users featuring preemptive multitasking were Sinclair QDOS ( 1984 ) and Amiga OS ( 1985 ).

** Kickstart, used in the Amiga line of computers ( POST, hardware init + Plug and Play auto-configuration of peripherals, kernel, etc.

* In the Amiga, the only absolute address in the system is hex $ 0000 0004 ( memory location 4 ), which contains the start location called SysBase, a pointer to exec. library, the so-called kernel of Amiga.

The ( completely different ) OS core in the 16 / 32-bit Commodore Amiga series was called the Amiga ROM Kernel, using the correct spelling of kernel.

* BSOD – shows fake fatal screen of death variants from many computer systems, including Microsoft Windows Blue Screen of Death, a Linux kernel panic, a Darwin crash, an Amiga " Guru Meditation " error, a sad Mac, and more.

He also became known for his Amiga programming, his C compiler DICE and his work on the Linux kernel.

Ben Hermans, writing on Amiga forum Ann. lu, claimed that these sources, along with the source of the PPC kernel WarpOS would be sufficient to provide a version to users within a year, making his now-infamous " change some flags and recompile " comment.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

The Amiga 1000 ( 1985 ) was the first model released

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.

The first model was released in 1985 as simply " The Amiga from Commodore ", later to be retroactively dubbed the Amiga 1000.

The following year the Amiga product line was expanded with the introduction of two new models: the Amiga 2000 for high-end graphics and business use, and the Amiga 500 for home use.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

The Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors was used in all Amiga models from Commodore.

Commodore's design choice to remain with the 68000 architecture ensured that code was backward-compatible across the Amiga line.

The NewTek Video Toaster was made possible by the genlock ability of the Amiga.

The Amiga was one of the first home computers for which inexpensive sound sampling and video digitization accessories were available.

It is also possible to ignore the 68k CPU and run Linux on the PPC ( project Linux APUS ), but a PowerPC native AmigaOS promised by Amiga Technologies GmbH was not available when the PowerUP boards first appeared.

This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.

The language was mildly successful within the Amiga community.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written.

The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix which was capable to give the user a complete graphical interface, featuring rich graphic content, changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.

By this time, however, many CBM users had shifted their attention to the 16 / 32-bit Amiga, and the 1581 was mostly sold to remaining GEOS users.

During development in 1983, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and was desperate for more financing.

The Atari Museum has acquired the Atari-Amiga contract and Atari engineering logs revealing that the Atari Amiga was originally designated as the 1850XLD.

At around the same time that Tramiel was in negotiations with Atari, Amiga entered into discussions with Commodore.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

It was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as Motorola 68k-based Apollo ( 68020 ) and Amiga 3000 ( 68030 ) workstations, the short-lived AT & T Hobbit and later PowerPC based BeBox.

It could also draw lines 3 times faster than an Amiga and even handle the maths of 3D models faster than the 32-bit Acorn Archimedes.

They also demanded that the colour palette be expanded to 4096 colours, the same as that of the Amiga.

MINIX 1. 5, released in 1991, included support for MicroChannel IBM PS / 2 systems and was also ported to the Motorola 68000 and SPARC architectures, supporting the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation computer platforms.

The Commodore Amiga 1200 computer and the Amiga CD32 games console used the cost-reduced 68EC020 ; the Namco System 22 arcade board has also used this processor.

The 68040 was also used in other personal computers, such as the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 4000T, as well as a number of workstations, Alpha Microsystems servers, the HP 9000 / 400 series, and later versions of the NeXT computer.

It was also used in the Amiga clone DraCo non-linear video system.

Denise also supports interlacing, which doubles the vertical resolution, at the cost of pretty bad flickering on most monitors produced during the same timeframe as the Amiga computers.

* The copper can also change colour registers once per scanline, creating the " raster bars " effect seen commonly in Amiga games.

Under normal circumstances, the Amiga generates its own video timings, but the chipset also supports synchronising itself to an external signal so as to achieve genlocking with external video hardware.

There is also an 1 bit output on this connector that indicates whether the Amiga is outputting background colour or not, permitting easy overlaying of Amiga video onto external video.

Models released before Amiga 1200 also have a static " tone knob " type low-pass filter that is enabled regardless of the optional " LED filter ".

A port for the Commodore Amiga was also made available in 1998 by clickBOOM Software.

Amiga Computing gave the game a score of 89 % and also praised the graphics.

It was also the last version released for the Commodore Amiga platform from which the game originated.

It is an application of the Resource Interchange File Format ( RIFF ) bitstream format method for storing data in " chunks ", and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF format used on Amiga and Macintosh computers, respectively.

They were also commonly added to higher-end models of Apple Macintosh and Commodore Amiga series, but unlike IBM PC-compatible systems, sockets for adding the coprocessor were not as common in lower end systems.