Date   : Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:31:39 +0100
From   : "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
Subject: Re: Who wrote BBC B Operating System?

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> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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."
> 

If you want to see this for yourself then open the OS ROM image in the ROMS
directory of b-em using notepad, the scroll down towards the end and there
it is. A fitting tribute to those who worked, on what I believe, is the best
computer ever made. I notice Roger Wilson is listed before he became Sophie
Wilson of the ARM era.

Dave ;)