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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Atari, and new Amiga ADS
Message-ID: <13028@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 13:36:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 13:36:08 1987
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In article <26379@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 
> Very interesting indeed, I hope that Perihelios provides a BCPL compiler for
> it too. When I read this I got a delightful vision of Helios functions talking
> to GEM functions where you have to both shift the address over by two bits
> as well as swap the bytes to put them in 80x86 order. As some of you know Tim
> was the major (only?) architect of AmigaDOS (just the DOS part not the exec
> or graphics or anything).

I've always thought it was a little strange that MetaComCo offers a BCPL
compiler for the ST, but not for the Amiga (actually, they advertise the
Amiga version as TBA [To Be Announced]).  Could it be that this move
to Helios is a long range plot, architected long ago?  BTW, anybody else
think that "Helios" has the "hear and sound" of "Tripos"?  Will Tripos take
over the world?  Is Tim King related to "Madman Muntz"?  Stay tuned for
further exciting developments ...

/kim


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