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Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70

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Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70
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OBIT Dr Timothy James King, the programmer behind the 68000 version of TRIPOS that became AmigaDOS, has died aged 70. According to an AmigaNews report, King's family said he passed at the end of July. King was a superb programmer – although he accomplished rather more than that. His most widely experienced work was a key component of the original Commodore Amiga's operating system. His port of Cambridge University's TRIPOS OS to the Motorola 68000 CPU became AmigaDOS. His rapid work getting it r

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