1 Dec
2010
1 Dec
'10
1:46 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:03:37PM -0500, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Richard <legalize
at xmission.com> wrote:
Yeah... its origins are from TRIPOS. I haven't forgotten (and I
*still* flee from BPTRs).
Apparently TRIPOS is still very much alive in a strangely mutated form.
There used to be some kind of appliance like computer system for
insurance agents in the UK. It originally ran on 68k CPUs with native
TRIPOS and nowadays seems to run in some kind of 68K emulation environment
on Linux (with presumably standard x86 hardware), complete with callouts
to the underlying Linux OS for things like tape handling (backups).
It looks like it is still use quite heavily in this form by insurance agents
in the UK.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
IIRC
there was something earlier written in BCPL.
I'd forgotten that AmigaOS was written in BCPL.