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Authored by: greed on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 05:00 PM EDT |
Workbench was the file manager and program launcher; the equivalent of the Mac's
Finder.
The GUI was called Intuition.
I'm not sure which you mean by "shell", we didn't call anything
graphical the shell. The command processor was originally called the CLI, and
the improved one was called the shell, but that's as in UNIX command shell, not
as in Workplace Shell for OS/2.
Now, other issues. Windows could be placed out of view on the Amiga: The system
supported multiple screens, which could be stacked. When two (or more) screens
could be drawn with a compatible horizontal scan rate, you could slide screens
down and see the screen behind them.
(On OCS and ECS Amigas, which used PAL or NTSC video standards for display, all
video modes were horizontal scan compatible.)
But that made it trivial to have a window open that you couldn't find: open it
on a different screen. Applications were not required to open any window on the
Workbench screen.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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