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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 00:03:22 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 15 Mar 96 Shaun C. Murray wrote to All:
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- SCM> It's true. The original OS was called CAOS but it was running into
- SCM> problems and the launch date was rapidly approaching. CBM went to
- SCM> Metacomco as a failsafe and they (or rather Dr. Tim King) ported a
- SCM> little known OS called TripOS in a very short time.
-
- SCM> There was a really in depth article in Transactor some years ago. CAOS
- SCM> and what became AmigaOS weren't that different really though if we had
- SCM> CAOS we wouldn't have got BCPL pointers and we would have had virtual
- SCM> memory and memory protection!
-
- You're wrong there. AFAIK there was only some embryonic support
- for a kind of resource tracking. Think of it: how were they going
- to implement VM or MP with a MMU-less 68000 cpu?
-
- Regards, Ruud
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