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== History ==
Originally known as Amiga File System, the filesystem itself was very similar to that of [[Xerox]] Alto Filesystem. Development was from 1982 to 1985 as the filesystem of [[TripOS]]. It received the nickname of "Old" or "Original" when [[Amiga Fast File System|Fast File System]] was released with [[Amiga OS]] 1.3.
OFS is very good for repairing the filesystem in the event of a problem, although the so called DiskDoctor provided by Commodore quickly earned the name DiskDestroyer, because it could not repair No-DOS type autostart disks provided by third-party software manufacturers as bootable disks for games. Interestingly, the idea to create non-standard autobootable disks was born in a primitive attempt to prevent copy of such disks and to avoid the loading and launch of Amiga DOS, in order to directly access the amiga graphic, audio and memory chipsets. DiskDoctor in fact changed autostart disks bootblocks into standard AmigaDOS-based ones, renaming a disk with "Lazarus" namedisk, and made the autostart disk unusable.
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