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>> Obviously there's also a truckload of ways AmigaOS is *different* from
>> Unix. [There are no device files,
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> Actually, there are. CON: was, for example, a device file.
Well that's not really a "file". That's a magic filename. Unix has real,
actual *files* that you can "touch". And you create new devices by
creating one of these magical files.
[AmigaDOS had device description files, but these are text files. They
don't work the same way Unix device files do with device codes and such;
the AmigaDOS device description files are textual things telling it what
driver to load and with what settings.]
>> 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.
There is no "/", no unique root filesystem.
Instead, there are lots of roots like "FOO:", "BAR:", etc. This is more
like MS-DOS pathname syntax.
Now, the way it *works* is of course more like Unix...
[OTOH, it uses forward slashes rather than backslashes.]
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