Another cool Amiga feature, filesystems

By: Marcus (m.delete@this.bitsnbites.eu), March 7, 2021 1:28 am
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Charles (charles.spam.delete@this.me.not) on March 6, 2021 12:01 am wrote:
> Another cool AmigaOS feature was the object oriented datatypes library. When an application
> used the datatypes library to read, say, image files, it could automatically and transparently
> read any file format for which there was a format specific datatypes compatible library
> available while itself only interfacing with the os' datatypes library.

I personally liked the dynamic device and filesystem support. Essentially anyone could implement a new filesystem, and people could install it and use it on any block device (e.g. your FDD or SCSI HDD). ...or the opposite: create a new block device (e.g. remote storage over the parallel port?) and use any filesystem on top of that. And of course it was completely transparent to programs using regular file I/O.

Sure, "proper" OSes have those features too these days, but back in the 80's it was not a common feature among consumer OS:es.
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                  Thanks - TIL a cool Amiga feature (nt) (NT)John2021/03/05 01:51 PM
                    Another cool Amiga feature, datatypesCharles2021/03/06 01:01 AM
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