Apart from wondering where this sprang from, if anyone wonders why AmigaDOS was such an ugly fit with the rest of exec and written in BCPL not C: They'd contra

Apart from wondering where this sprang from, if anyone wonders why AmigaDOS was such an ugly fit with the rest of exec and written in BCPL not C: They'd contracted a SV company to produce CAOS, to a spec of Carl Sassenrath - the creator of exec (OO multi-tasking kernel). As deadline got closer and closer it was clear it wasn't happening, or even close. It was meant to get resource tracking and some other features to integrate with exec. Edit: Found the spec and story of CAOS: http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html It got AmigaDOS - a port of Tripos from UK company Metacomco. It got that because no one else they asked believed they could deliver anything in the remaining time. That's why there was all the BCPL weirdness with DOS.