Date   : Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:03:10 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Who wrote BBC B Operating System?

In article <10510221548.ZM27191@...>, Pete Turnbull
<pete@...> writes

>IIRC it was mostly Paul Bond, but if you look in the BBC's MOS ROM, in
>the three pages normally hidden by the memory-mapped hardware, you'll
>find several other credits, some of whom did other parts of the
>software.

I did this some years ago by plugging a spare OS ROM into my EPROM
programmer and saving the image.  The text hidden under FRED/JIM/SHEILA
is:

"(C) 1981 Acorn Computers Ltd.

Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the
BBC Computer (among others too numerous to mention):- 

David Allen, Bob Austin, Ram Banerjee, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd,
Cambridge, Cleartone, John Coll, John Cox, Andy Cripps, Chris Curry,
6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Paul Farrell,
Ferranti, Steve Furber, Jon Gibbons, Andrew Gordon, Lawrence Hardwick,
Dylan Harris, Hermann Hauser, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, ICL, Martin
Jackson, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, David King, David Kitson, Paul
Kriwaczek, Computer Laboratory, Peter Miller, Arthur Norman, Glyn
Phillips, Mike Prees, John Radcliffe, Wilberforce Road, Peter
Robinson, Richard Russell, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon
Thackray, Chris Turner, Adrian Warner, Roger Wilson, Alan Wright."