Commodities and Utilities
Amiga places System Utilities in two standard directories:
- The Utilities directory contains programs like IconEdit.
- The Commodities directory (volume SYS:Tools/Commodities/ or SYS:Utilities/Commodities under AmigaOS4) contains executable applet-like utilities which enhance system usability, like for example the ScreenBlanker, the default screen saver shipped with AmigaOS. "Commodities" are usually loaded at system startup. They require no interaction, and do not feature any GUI interfaces.
- A system utility called Exchange allowed the user to control, stop, reload and tune "Commodities."
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