[flohofwoe]

Lots of nostalgia of course, but the Amiga was a glimpse into an alternative future where the computer was a productivity and creativity device, not primarily a media consumption device, while at the same time being friendly to beginners and intuitive to use. For instance the way GUI and command line worked together, and (starting with AmigaOS 2.0) applications could be wired up to exchange data and provide services to other applications in a consistent way across the whole system is something that went way beyond the UNIX command line and still is unmatched.

Switching from my beloved Amiga 3000 to Windows 95 was like being thrown back into the dark ages for a few years (apart from the games of course, Doom FTW!), until the rest of the world finally caught up (but not completely) with WinXP and OSX.

[zozbot234]

> For instance the way GUI and command line worked together, and (starting with AmigaOS 2.0) applications could be wired up to exchange data and provide services to other applications in a consistent way across the whole system is something that went way beyond the UNIX command line and still is unmatched.

Dbus actually took quite a bit of inspiration from Amiga REXX ports (via KDE DCOP), so we've actually gotten that back in recent years. But so many Amiga features are still lacking in modern OS's.

[vidarh]

The problem for me with dbus is perceived complexity, and lack of community expectations.

Dbus tends to be treated as something developers might use, while AREXX was something regular users used, and expected applications to support.

The technical capability is there, but something is lacking. And that is the case for a lot of things I miss from the Amiga - it's technically easy to replicate datatypes for example.