Date   : Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:41:12 +0100 (BST)
From   : BBC Micro <b_b_c_m_i_c_r_o@...>
Subject: Re: Who wrote BBC B Operating System?

Thanks for that, I had a look around, aha found it:-

(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.

--- Pete Turnbull <pete@...> wrote:

> On Oct 19 2005, 16:50, BBC Micro wrote:
> > I know who wrote the BBC BASIC but was wondering
> who
> > wrote the OS ?
> 
> I replied to this before, but I think from the wrong
> address (ie not
> the one I'm subscribed from) and it didn't make it
> to the list.  So
> better late than never:
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you look in some of the really early versions,
> you'll find bits of
> edit history with Paul's initials.
> 
> -- 
> Pete                                              Peter Turnbull
>                                           Network Manager
>                                           University of York
> 
> 



               
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