Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021
I don&#x27;t want to bash amiga, actually I really envy the history and capabilities of that system. Nevertheless, posts like this are almost always seen through a bit of rose tinted glasses.<p>The part about DataTypes:<p>&quot;Datatypes describe a file format and tell the OS how to handle it. Any datatype-aware program can use any file format as long as a relevant datatype is present.&quot;<p>Doesn&#x27;t looks that different from how codecs are used in modern OS&#x27;s. AFAIK, as soon as ffmpeg or gstreamer learns new formats or how to use hardware codecs, so does every program using them without the need of even recompiling. Of course, doing that 30 years ago is another thing.<p>And:<p>&quot;RAD: is a fixed-size bootable RAM disk that survives soft reboots. Equivalents exist for most modern Operating Systems. They’re worth trying out. You don’t really know how useful they are till you lose them.&quot;<p>Maybe I can change my mind if I use them, but I really don&#x27;t feel the need. On my notebook, I simply close the lid and when I open it, it is mostly in the same state I left; some system I used are stable enough to have months of uptime; using &#x2F;tmp&#x2F; seems enough for me. I once had I power failure and recovering whatever was on &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;required booting from a keychain but it was easy to do and a very rare occurrence.<p>The &quot;RAD:&quot; may be interesting on not specially stable, non high uptime, &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;-lacking systems but I can&#x27;t see how they can be relevant on modern OS&#x27;s.