Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg From: mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: The word 'TRIPOS' Message-ID: <449@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 10:33:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.449 Posted: Thu Sep 19 10:33:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:17:11 EDT References: <339@wcwvax.UUCP> <1624@islenet.UUCP> Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 21 > What the heck does 'TRIPOS' have do with the Amiga? > not a whole lot...perhaps someone > ccould elaborate on this. > > Aloha, > Jonathan Spangler > {ihnp4,dual,ucbvax}!islenet!jons The operating system in the Amiga was done by Metacomo, Bristol UK and is based on the TRIPOS operating system developed for the Cambridge Ring (a local area network system). Presumably the authors graduated from Cambridge University where the exams are called the TRIPOS after the 3 legged stools students had to sit on in times of yore. To Net.fogey - sorry for suggesting the TRIPOS was a 3 part exam - I should have known better, being English myself. Mike Gingell