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'''AmigaOS''' is the native [[operating system]] of the [[wp:Amiga|Amiga]] personal computer, a series of workstations originally marketed by [[Commodore]] from 1985 through 1994, and later by other companies. For a brief history of AmigaOS and the Amiga in general, see [[wp:History of the Amiga|Wikipedia's Amiga history page]].
AmigaOS is notable as being an early GUI operating system, following in the footsteps of systems such as [[Mac OS]] and [[wp:Graphical Environment Manager|GEM]] (although GEM was only considered part of the OS on Atari computers -- see [[wp:Atari TOS|Wikipedia's Atari TOS page]] for more on that topic).
Like the [[Macintosh]], part of the operating system is contained in the [[wp:Bootstrapping (computing)|boot ROM]], called '''[[wp:Kickstart (Amiga)|Kickstart]]'''. Unlike the Mac, however, large parts of the OS were contained in the Kickstart.
The command line portion of the OS, implemented by Kickstart, is called '''[[wp:AmigaDOS|AmigaDOS]]'''. While AmigaDOS is not to be confused with [[DOS|PC-style DOS]], it does share some similarities with DOS and other text-mode systems.
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