Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Obviously there's also a truckload of ways AmigaOS is *different* from 
> Unix. [There are no device files,

Actually, there are. CON: was, for example, a device file.

> pathnames have a syntax more like MS-DOS, 

Actually, not. Each was up to the device driver to interpret. The stuff 
before the colon was the name of the device driver that the rest got 
passed to. The "Speach:" driver, for example, had no pathnames remotely 
resembling MS-DOS.

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