>> 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.

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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