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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:19:14 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
- Message-ID: <4ibu92$pk9@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>
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- In article <1589.6644T1127T2987@netspace.net.au>, astroboy@netspace.net.au
- says...
- >
- >>>AmigaDOS *was* the first OS considered, I think you'll find.
- >> No, they were working on their own, but it got all bogged and bugged down
- >> so
- >>they went to Metacomco I believe for some sort of help in turning some mini-
- >>comouter Tripos OS or something like that into AmigaDOS.
- >
- >I have never heard of this.. it must have been a very embryonic system
- indeed.
-
- It's true. The original OS was called CAOS but it was running into problems
- and the launch date was rapidly approaching. CBM went to Metacomco as a
- failsafe and they (or rather Dr. Tim King) ported a little known OS called
- TripOS in a very short time.
-
- TripOS was originally an OS developed in a Cambridge (UK) university as a
- small fast efficient OS. One of the guys who did something on it at univeristy
- works for the company I work for. I think it was Trinity College hence the Tri
- in Tripos.
-
- There was a really in depth article in Transactor some years ago. CAOS and
- what became AmigaOS weren't that different really though if we had CAOS we
- wouldn't have got BCPL pointers and we would have had virtual memory and
- memory protection!
-
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- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
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