TRIPOS

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TRIPOS
developer University of Cambridge , University of Bath ,
License (s) proprietary
First publ. January 1978
Architecture (s) BCPL , assembler
Others Language: English

TRIPOS ( TRI vial P ortable O perating S ystem ) was an operating system that was developed at Cambridge University and programmed in BCPL . Both the kernel and the device drivers are written in assembly language.

The AmigaDOS - a component of the AmigaOS - is also based on TRIPOS. The portable TRIPOS kernel was adapted to AmigaDOS by Tim King , who transferred the rights to commercial exploitation of TRIPOS to MetaComCo , Ltd. brought in.

Ports

Commands

The following list of commands is supported by the TRIPOS command line .

  • ALINK
  • ASSEM
  • ASSIGN
  • BREAK
  • C.
  • CD
  • CONSOLE
  • COPY
  • DATE
  • DELETE
  • TO YOU
  • DISKCOPY
  • DISKDOCTOR
  • ECHO
  • ED
  • EDIT
  • ENDCLI
  • FAILAT
  • FAULT
  • FILENOTE
  • FORMAT
  • IF
  • INFO
  • INSTALL
  • JOIN
  • LAB
  • LIST
  • MAKEDIR
  • MOUNT
  • NEWCLI
  • PATH
  • PROMPT
  • PROTECT
  • QUIT
  • RELABEL
  • RENAME
  • RUN
  • SEARCH
  • SKIP
  • SORT
  • STACK
  • STATUS
  • TYPE
  • VDU
  • WAIT
  • WHY

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/Archive/archive.tgz BCPL and Tripos archive
  2. https://www.pagetable.com/docs/amigados_tripos/tripos_manuals.pdf