True, TRIPOS was incorporated into in the AmigaDOS and provided the disk operating system portion of the overall AmigaOS.
The overall Amiga OS was otherwise more Unix based.
That is very interesting. at the time I was unaware of any Unix influence of Unix in AmogaOS, but merging a bit of Tripos in a Unix box is a quaint route forward. *LOL*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/tripos.html
Was this the bit that had Unix code in it ?
Quote "until it was replaced in v36 by a combination of assembler & C"
As an aside....... it is interesting to note that the only reference to Tripos and Unix was this I quote from a Forum:-
Quote:-
I sent Dr Tim King the creater of TripOs/ADos an E-Mail and heres what he replyed.
"Tripos was entirely command line based - much like Unix/Linux was before X-Windows and Gnome and stuff. The rest of the Amiga team put together the graphical front end. RJ Michael did Intuition which was the icons and stuff; Dale Luck did the graphics that underpinned it."
End Quote.
I'm quite interested in the evolution of various OSs such that :-
Unix - BSD - OS X with no Linux involvement was an interesting route but given BSDs rock solid core on reliability, very understandable.
Cambridge Computer Labs have got a very good reputation, including the first use of 'Web Cams' on their coffee pot ! *LOL*
So if anyone knows of the history of the origins of Tripos , I would be very interested.
Tim