Amiga languages

[Adam Sampson]

"Lee Davison" <lee at geekdot.com> writes:

>> HeliOS was just an operating system, not a language, no?
> Not according to the readme ..

They're two different things -- there's a Transputer OS called HeliOS,
and there was also a compiled Forth-like language for the Amiga
designed by Roger Wharmby. I don't recall HeliOS-the-language ever
really taking off, but the "HeliOS Defender" demo game made it onto a
few coverdisks.

I suppose you could claim that having a Transputer board running
HeliOS-the-OS would also let you program the Amiga in occam, although
it'd only be acting as an IO server. But it's not like the Amiga's
short of programming languages; a quick look at the Fish disks or
Aminet will find lots of examples.

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>