AmigaOS - Influence On Other Operating Systems

Influence On Other Operating Systems

  • AROS Research Operating System (AROS) implements the AmigaOS API in a portable open-source operating system. Although not binary compatible with AmigaOS (unless running on 68k), users have reported it to be highly source-code compatible.
  • MorphOS is a PowerPC native operating system which also runs on some Amiga hardware. It implements AmigaOS API and provides binary compatibility with "OS-friendly" AmigaOS applications (that is, those applications which do not access any native, legacy Amiga hardware directly).
  • pOS was a multiplatform closed-source operating system with source code-level compatibility with existing Amiga software.
  • Although not strictly Amiga-related, a fork of the FreeBSD 4.8 release, called DragonFly BSD, has been created by a former FreeBSD developer and Amiga programmer Matt Dillon. DragonFly BSD aims to make the FreeBSD kernel more like AmigaOS architecturally, featuring message-passing in the kernel and allowing for very efficient and virtually mutex-free SMP support.
  • BeOS features also a centralized datatypes structure similar to Mac OS Easy Open after old Amiga developers requested Be to adopt Amiga datatypes service. It allows the entire OS to recognize all kind of files (text, music, videos, documents, etc.) with standard file descriptors. Datatype system provides entire system and any productivity tools with standard loaders and savers for these files, without having the necessity to embed multiple file loading capabilities into any single program.
  • AtheOS was inspired by AmigaOS, and originally intended to be a clone of AmigaOS. Syllable is a fork of AtheOS, and includes some AmigaOS and BeOS like qualities.
  • The operating system of the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer bore a very strong resemblance to AmigaOS, and was developed by RJ Mical, the creator of the Amiga's Intuition user interface.

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