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Working with the Amiga's RAM and Rad Disks

Working with the Amiga's RAM and Rad Disks

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·October 16, 2025
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EvanAnderson

RAD disks surviving warm boots were so mind-bending to me, coming from the MS-DOS RAMDRIVE.SYS world before ever seeing an Amiga. The dynamic size on RAM disks was also pretty cool but wrapping my mind around that was much easier.

AmigaDOS was really cool. I still miss ARexx ports (an IPC mechanism used for application automation) pretty regularly (though COM on Windows isn't a bad substitute).

Pluggable data types are something else I think about periodically (like when I have to deal with HEIC files that users invariably complain about not opening in the programs they use).

It was ahead of its time. I pined for memory protection back in the day, but aside from that omission it was pretty good.

pjmlp

I would vouch Amiga had better tooling, to this day doing COM is kind of horrible, for the relevance it happens to have on Windows.