Working with the Amiga's RAM and Rad Disks
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The article explores the Amiga's RAM and Rad Disks, sparking nostalgia and technical discussion among retrocomputing enthusiasts.
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AmigaDOS was really cool. I still miss ARexx ports (an IPC mechanism used for application automation) pretty regularly (though COM on Windows isn't a bad substitute).
Pluggable data types are something else I think about periodically (like when I have to deal with HEIC files that users invariably complain about not opening in the programs they use).
It was ahead of its time. I pined for memory protection back in the day, but aside from that omission it was pretty good.