Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor) (04/28/91)
In <1991Apr28.123114.13467@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: | [...] |I know that most PCs have "operating systems" that are no more than |file systems and program loaders, but the Amiga isn't one of them. | |Tripos by itself, with its own memory managers, schedulers, and so on |is quite a different beast from AmigaOS. If you want to see what it |looks like, you can probably still find an old Sinclair QL to play |around with. |-- |Peter da Silva. `-_-' |<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>. Peter, are you quite sure that the Sinclair QL OS [another QDOS, but no relation to Seattle Computer QDOS {Quick & Dirty OS according to Tim Patterson}] is related in any way to Tripos? I developed on the QL for a couple of years & never heard it mentioned. There are no BCPL artifacts in QL-QDOS; it is written in assembly. The closest approach to Tripos in QL-QDOS is in the string handling; WORD & data format instead of BSTR. There are no packets, messages etc. so I am curious what leads to to say Tony Tebby used Tripos. -het "God told me to skin you alive." Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.bc.ca
peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (05/01/91)
In article <5660@mindlink.bc.ca> Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor) writes: > Peter, are you quite sure that the Sinclair QL OS [another QDOS, > but no relation to Seattle Computer QDOS {Quick & Dirty OS according > to Tim Patterson}] is related in any way to Tripos? I have no idea. But I do know that there was a Tripos for the thing, because there was some discussion about running AmigaOS stuff on it, from QL owners who were using Tripos, a few years back. Nothing came of it, natch. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.