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Re:Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died by abanana on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:38AM (#49284496)
Yes, that's all you could do. Sounds like just a slight memory fault exaggerating it, something I'm sure we're all guilty of. Booting "exclusively to amigaDOS, without the ...windowing system available" was not possible, as the CLI ran in a window.
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Re:Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died by alienbaby on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:05AM (#49331178)
This is correct. I just can't quite remember the exact details nowadays. But now you say it, I think that is what I had, just a single cli window :)
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Re:Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died by scruss on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:34PM (#49348262)
You could use alternative shells, though, and they weren't quite as painful. Bill Hawes's 'wsh' was rather nice.
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