On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 22:12:40 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
declaimed the following:
>It is strange, but then in the day Cambridge was a hive of invention in
>the digital arena, and I think if it hadnt been them it would have been
>someone else.
>
Including the origination of the Amiga command line part of the OS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS#Influences_on_the_Amiga_computer
(though not the kernel -- TRIPOS did not, to my knowledge, support
round-robin scheduling, it was strictly preemptive by priority, where Amiga
implemented multi-priority round-robin preemption).
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/tripos.html
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