On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
IIRC there was
something earlier written in BCPL.
I'd forgotten that AmigaOS was written in BCPL.
Yeah... its origins are from TRIPOS. I haven't forgotten (and I
*still* flee from BPTRs).
I think by the 2.x era, the BCPL codebase was replaced by C (but the
API remained, and so did the BPTRs).
-ethan