Console
The Amiga console is a standard Amiga virtual device, normally assigned to CON: and driven by console.handler. It was developed from a primitive interface in AmigaOS 1.1, and became stable with versions 1.2 and 1.3, when it started to be known as AmigaShell and its original handler was replaced by newconsole.handler (NEWCON:).
The console had various features that were considered up to date when it was created in 1985, like Command Template Help, redirection to null ("NIL:"), and ANSI color terminal. The new console handler allowed many more features, such as command history, pipelines, and automatic creation of files when output was redirected. When the Internet became popular, the console could also receive redirection from Amiga Internet stacks employing Internet-enabled Amiga device handlers (e.g., TCP:, copy file TO TCP:Site/Port).
Unlike other systems of its age, AmigaDOS did not implement a proprietary character set; the developers chose to use the ANSI–ISO standard ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1), which includes the ASCII character set. As in Unix systems, the Amiga console accepts only linefeed ("LF") as an end-of-line ("EOL") character. The Amiga console has support for accented characters as well as for characters created by combinations of 'dead keys' on the keyboard.
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