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- From: "Richard P. O'Sullivan" <rosully@aww.com>
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- Subject: Do you recall Tripos?
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:53:17 -0500
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- I recall reading that a Cambridge, UK effort to create an OS for
- machine tools led to AmigaDOS's kernal, Exec. A quick scan of the Web
- did not reveal the source. Do you recall this story?
-
- Here are some references:
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- http://www.cs.wvu.edu/%7Ejdm/research/portbib.html
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- Richards, M., et al, TRIPOS -- A Portable Operating System for
- Mini-computers. Software -- Practice and Experience 9, 7 (Jul. 1979),
- pp. 513-526.
-
- Describes portability features of the TRIPOS operating system,
- written in BCPL by BCPL's creator.
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- See also,
- Linkname: University of Cambridge Computer Lab Home Page
- URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/
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- Rick
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