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TOS stood for Tramiel Operating System. Yes, he is the one who brought in the Atari ST.
by hub_ 14y ago
TOS stood for Tramiel Operating System. Yes, he is the one who brought in the Atari ST.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoAh, the ST. My first major purchase with my own money, made from working a billion godawful hours of overtime at my summer construction work job in college. And worth every damn penny of it.
- mikecane 14y agoHahahaha. I laugh because I put in the OT too in order to buy one. Mine was in an office, though, as a Mac(!) temp.
- bitwize 14y agoA.k.a. the "Jackintosh". :)
- tremendo 14y agoWhich came about also after Jay Miner took the Amiga away. I believe Tramiel acquired Atari hoping to get the Amiga chipset, which Miner then took to Commodore.
- rbanffy 14y agoIn the end, I liked the STs better. The Amigas were, of course, more capable and more in line with Commodore and 8-bit Atari tradition, but the minimalism of the ST is refreshing to the point of reminding me of the simple elegance of the Apple II. Even a plan-B can become a masterpiece.
- kabdib 14y agoNo, it didn't. It stood for "The Operating System". [I worked on it, and Leonard Tramiel, who was in charge of the software team, named it. I think you can attribute the lack of a creative name to the fact that we were all very tired: The software was started in September 1984, and we shipped the 1.0 ROMs in May].