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AmigaSource.com - KEY PEOPLE
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Key people in the history of Commodore, the Amiga and Computer History
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Dr Tim King, one of the engineers closely associated with the creation of AmigaDOS, died at the end of July 2026. His name may not be as widely known as the Amiga brand itself, but his work sits right at the heart of the machine’s operating system. King’s main contribution came through TRIPOS, an operating system developed in academia and later adapted into the foundation of AmigaDOS. That software became responsible for many of the everyday jobs an Amiga had to handle, including files, directories, devices, scripts and command-line operations. In practical terms, AmigaDOS was the part of the system users met whenever they worked beyond the graphical desktop. |
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Dr. Tim King passed away at the end of July, his family confirmed upon request. King played a key role in the development of AmigaDOS and thus in an important chapter of the Amiga's software history. |
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Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online. OBIT Dr Timothy James King, the programmer behind the 68000 version of TRIPOS that became AmigaDOS, has died aged 70. 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 running on prototype Amiga hardware helped Commodore launch the machine in 1985 after its in-house OS project failed to deliver. As he put it himself: "As a result I have the distinction of having written software used by over 2 million users." |
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