Introduction 1-7 Amiga's own operating system. Amiga's high processing efficiency is the use of the multi-tasking feature in the being executed according to its priority—is a capability unique to the Amiga 2000 among microcomputers in or near its price range. Part of the reason for the Multi-tasking—i.e., handling a number of tasks simultaneously, with each task Multi-tasking which means that it is always directly accessible—you never need to take the time to load it from disk. This greatly enhances processing speed. The Amiga 2000 has a large portion (256 Kbyte) of its operating system in ROM, Operating System in ROM Among the key features of the Amiga 2000 are the following:
General Features of the Amiga 2000 material is not essential to setting up the Amiga 2000 and running application software. ers and others who have a strong technical interest in the Amiga 2000. This The remainder of this chapter is addressed primarily to programmers, develop n