Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!pawl19.pawl.rpi.edu!jesup From: jesup@pawl19.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power? Message-ID: <139@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 87 09:32:14 GMT References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4459@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1150@sugar.UUCP> <816@neoucom.UUCP> <953@pur-phy> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: lunge!jesup@beowulf.UUCP Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY Lines: 17 In article <953@pur-phy> tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes: >So what happened to this "zoot custom" O/S. Was it just shelved, >completely trashed or is it still being worked on. Does anyone know >some of the characteristics? Good points or bad points? Not that >I want to knock Exec (although BPCL and some aspects of AmigaDos >are suspect). Exec, graphics, intuition, etc are NOT part of tripos, they were done for the amiga. The DOS (AmigaDos nee Tripos) replaced the custom disk operating system that was supposed to run on top of Exec, etc. In fact, the custom OS (called CAOS) was spec'ed by the person who wrote Exec, Karl Sassenrath. I have been told by Andy Finkel that CAOS actually somewhat existed on a Sage for a while, before it was scrapped. // Randell Jesup Lunge Software Development // Dedicated Amiga Programmer 13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180 \\// lunge!jesup@beowulf.UUCP (518) 272-2942 \/ (uunet!steinmetz!beowulf!lunge!jesup)