AmigaDOS

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AmigaDOS provides the disk operating system portion of the AmigaOS. This includes file systems, file and directory manipulation, the command line interface, file redirection and so on.

In AmigaOS 1.x, the AmigaDOS portion was based on a TRIPOS port by MetaComCo, written in BCPL. The more advanced functionality was only available to programs written in BCPL, C programmers were left in the cold. The third-party AmigaDOS Resource Project (arp.library) [1] provided the advanced functionality to C programmers. ARP also provided one of the first standardised file requesters for the Amiga.

From AmigaOS 2.x onwards, AmigaDOS was rewritten in C, retaining 1.x compatibility where possible.

AmigaOS (category)
Companies:	Commodore International | Hyperion Entertainment
Computers:	Amiga
Technology:	Workbench | Intuition | AmigaDOS | ARexx | AmigaBASIC | Amigaguide | Software | Games | Demos
Operating systems:	AmigaOS (versions) | AROS | MorphOS