
The Amiga intellectual property is fragmented between Amiga Inc., Cloanto, and Hyperion Entertainment. It includes an abstraction of the Amiga's hardware, a disk operating system called AmigaDOS, a windowing system API called Intuition and a desktop file manager called Workbench. A PowerPC microprocessor is required for the most recent release, AmigaOS 4.ĪmigaOS is a single-user operating system based on a preemptive multitasking kernel, called Exec. Later versions were developed by Haage & Partner (AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9) and then Hyperion Entertainment (AmigaOS 4.0-4.1).

Early versions of AmigaOS required the Motorola 68000 series of 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors.

It was developed first by Commodore International and introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. Commodore International, Hyperion EntertainmentĤ.1 Final Edition Update 2 / January 12, 2021 11 months ago ( )ĪmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers.
