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Dr Tim King, AmigaDOS porter, Helios creator and UK Online founder, dies at 70
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Dr Tim King, who ported TRIPOS to create AmigaDOS and later founded UK Online, has died at 70.
WHY IT MATTERS
King's port of TRIPOS became the foundation of AmigaDOS, shaping the Amiga's command line and filesystem. His Helios OS for Transputer clusters explored parallel computing. He also founded one of the UK's early ISPs, UK Online.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
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King ported TRIPOS to the Motorola 68000, and that version became AmigaDOS for the Commodore Amiga.
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He created Helios, a Unix-like OS for parallel machines built from INMOS Transputer chips.
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He founded UK Online in 1994, sold it to Easynet in 1996, and the brand was shut down by Sky in 2011.
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