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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga good for hacking??
Message-ID: <1529@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 00:30:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 11 00:30:10 1987
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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In article <2725@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) writes:
>
>I've very carefully avoided digging into the guts of AmigaDOS (I spend
>far to much time in the guts of larger, uglier OS's as it is...). I
>asked C/A for a description of how AmigaDOS, the EXEC & TRIPOS fit
>together. The answer that came back was "TRIPOS and AmigaDOS are one
>and the same (essentially)." Someone from C/A care to correct that?

You have:

Exec (muli-tasking kernel)
Intuition (windowing)
Graphics Libraries (sound, math, etc also)
AmigaDOS (perhaps organized as a library)
Commands/Utilities

Only the last two are TRIPOS/Metacomco/BCPL related.  I not sure there is a
good name for the aggregate - AmgiaDOS is usually used as an all-inclusive
name, but obviously this creates some confusion from time to time.
-- 
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