Stefan Ram wrote in article <
King-20260812161114@ram.dialup.fu-
berlin.de>:
AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away
I'm sorry to hear that.
| Dr. Tim King was a prominent British computer scientist and developer
| who played a pivotal role in computing history by creating AmigaDOS,
| the foundational command-line and file-system layer of the iconic
| Commodore Amiga operating system. He passed away in late July 2026.
|
| Faced with an impossible six-month deadline when Commodore's original
| in-house operating system fell hopelessly behind schedule, Dr. King
| successfully adapted his own academic multitasking research to save
| the Amiga 1000 launch.
Now that's pretty cool.
Seems like we never hear stories like this any more.
--
The meek shall inherit, we're told,
But I'm not so easily sold.
For supposing they should,
It would do them no good --
They'd lose it at once to the bold.
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