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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Do you recall Tripos?
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- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 15:03:21 +0100
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- In article <Pine.AMI.3.91.960202174621.132201424E-100000@aww.com>, "Richard P. O'Sullivan" writes:
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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.
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- Not quite, Exec is genuinely by Amiga; by Carl Sassenrath, that is.
- Tripos is the ancestor of DOS (dos.library, the console handler, the
- file system, etc.).
-
- > Do you recall this story?
-
- Yes, it is well-known, for it brought us joys like BPTRs and BSTRs.
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