lol
I was reading about some of those hobby OS systems and a few were pretty interesting.
Hobby my lilly white arse. Ever watch Babylon 5? that was ALL Amiga running a Video Toaster. Wintel/Mac didn’t catch up for nearly years. And at 20 times the cost.
Amiga was Unix with a GUI over it.
All things aside, read up on the Amiga. It is a fascinating story of tech way ahead of the market.
With the use of today's microprocessors, Basic would really scream, and was perfectly adequate for literally anyone to code a workable program in a few hours or days.
I really wish I could get my hands on an undated version of HP Basic. I actually coded literally any engineering task I wanted, text only, which at the time were the most tedious time-consuming tasks.
Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, structural, hydraulics, statics, dynamics, all were rendered accessible to anyone in control of High school math.
I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was literally amazed when using a "toy" computer and double precision math we could replace a 5-pound book of trigonometric functions for every second of arc on the fly.
Early 1980s...