Posted on 02/20/2012 7:27:49 AM PST by ShadowAce
This is not new. During my quest for a BS in Computer Science we had to write and run programs in COBOL, Fortran, MIX, Algol, GPSS, Simula, SNOBOL, LISP, and probably a couple others I've forgotten.
During my first USAF assignment I was working with a Captain with a MS in Comp Sci.
Around 1976 we had a new 2nd Lieutenant join the group; had a BS in Comp Sci but had never "run" a program. In her curriculum you wrote the COBOL program out on paper and the instructor graded the source code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS
AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000. Old versions only run on the Motorola 68k series of 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors, while the newer AmigaOS 4 runs only on PowerPC
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The current holder of the Amiga intellectual properties is Amiga Inc. In 2001 they contracted AmigaOS 4 development to Hyperion Entertainment and in 2009 they granted Hyperion an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide right to AmigaOS 3.1 in order to develop and market AmigaOS 4 and subsequent versions.[1]
Also, Amiga kudos. A machine WAY ahead of it's time. For better or worse, Alex St. John, one of the fellows who was behind the design of DirectX was influenced by the Amiga OS architecture.
Ah yes, I remember. I stepped up to the 1130 and the 1620 after that. I think there was some PDP4 time in there too.
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