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- From: farren@netcom.com (Mike Farren)
- Subject: Re: C= going down...
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- Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 01:46:57 GMT
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- robodude@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo) writes:
-
- >Notice also that the Operating System was created by one able programmer
- >at Metacomco, who later disappeared (apparently). C= may have changed the
- >looks of Intuition, but aside of a few insignificant additions the OS is
- >still the same. That is, all those data types, etc. may be useful and
- >neat, but the actual multitasking system is still the same.
-
- Bad history. Actually, the Amiga OS can be divided into two parts: DOS,
- as in "dos.library", and everything else. Everything else, which includes
- Intuition, Exec, graphics.library, and *most* of what makes an Amiga an
- Amiga, was developed by the group of folks including R.J. Mical, Carl
- Sassenrath, etc., at Amiga Los Gatos, and was done even before Commodore
- bought them. The DOS part was done by Metacomco, and was a simple
- rewrite of an existing OS called Tripos, developed at Cambridge (England,
- of course), and written in BCPL - which is why there's those pesky
- BPTRS and all. Metacomco was hired to do the DOS when Commodore
- needed, desperately, to get the Amiga out the door and the original
- DOS was falling behind schedule. It would have been neat, though :-)
- To give them credit where credit is due, Metacomco *did* manage to get
- a working system out (if you call that working :-) very quickly...
-
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- Michael J. Farren farren@netcom.com
-
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- "You don't."
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