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  1. Path: sable.ox.ac.uk!sjoh0358
  2. From: sjoh0358@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Parkinson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: What's our OS called?
  5. Date: 13 Jan 1996 16:11:26 GMT
  6. Organization: Oxford University, England
  7. Message-ID: <4d8lje$rh2@news.ox.ac.uk>
  8. References: <Magpie821160394Ian@sirdar.demon.co.uk> <DKyp3w.M19@csc.liv.ac.uk> <1996Jan11.215621.13009@scala.scala.com> <4d6p8l$1n9@maureen.teleport.com>
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  11. In article <4d6p8l$1n9@maureen.teleport.com>,
  12. Stephan Schaem <sschaem@teleport.com> wrote:
  13. > More attractive then AMOS? (Amiga Multitasking Operating System:)
  14. >
  15. > Stephan
  16.  
  17. As a side issue, why did Mandarin call their BASIC variant AMOS, which I 
  18. *think* stood for Amiga Operating System. I know it was based on STOS (Atari
  19. ST Operating System), but still, WHY?
  20.  
  21. Ian
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