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	Review: The Programmer's Source
		Metacomco's Lattice C is directly transportable to the IBM and Amiga versions of Lattice C. Metacomco specifically includes functions to provide UNIX, XENIX, and ANSI compatibility.
		Metacomco also claims that no special programming is needed to conform the resource file to either medium- or high-resolution monitors.
		Metacomco suggests a full megabyte of RAM in your ST to take full advantage of Cambridge Lisp, but the system is still quite useable on a 520ST.
	www.atarimagazines.com /st-log/issue20/85_1_REVIEW_METACOMCO_OVERVIEW.php (4186 words)

	Review: The Programmer's Source
		Metacomco's Lattice C is directly transportable to the IBM and Amiga versions of Lattice C. Metacomco specifically includes functions to provide UNIX, XENIX, and ANSI compatibility.
		Metacomco also claims that no special programming is needed to conform the resource file to either medium- or high-resolution monitors.
		Metacomco suggests a full megabyte of RAM in your ST to take full advantage of Cambridge Lisp, but the system is still quite useable on a 520ST.
	atarimagazines.com /st-log/issue20/85_1_REVIEW_METACOMCO_OVERVIEW.php (4186 words)

	Reviews:
		Metacomco is to be commended for documenting its own libraries as thoroughly as it has and, especially, for taking the time to compile a 19-page index of the manual.
		Perhaps in the next release Metacomco will allow the use of any screen editor so users will not have to learn ED only to call it occasionally from within the interpreter.
		To be fair, Metacomco recommends that users write with questions, so they probably put more effort into answering such requests.
	www.atarimagazines.com /startv1n4/cambridgelisp.html (1803 words)

	Page 6 - Issue 18 - Metacomco & the ST
		Metacomco is a name much in the news recently for its work on Commodore's Amiga but this conceals a much longer history within the personal computer market.
		QL users will already be familiar with Metacomco's Editor/Assembler package as well as an excellent ISO PASCAL so it should come as no surprise that they are producing a full range of languages and development tools for the Atari 520ST.
		When I spoke to Metacomco about the Editor, I was assured that initial purchasers of this package would be able to obtain some adjustment in price or similar if purchasing a similar package incorporating the Editor.
	www.page6.org /archive/issue_18/page_47.htm (558 words)

	Amiga Auckland OS Evolution
		Metacomco, a Bristol-based firm took on the job.
		MetaComCo had previously developed an Operating System called TRIPOS for mini and mainframe computers in conjunction with Cambridge University.
		The result was an Operating System that went far beyond the interface meeded for a games machine, but it was felt that the result was too slow and not reliable.
	www.titan.co.nz /amigaak/AA020230.htm (453 words)

	Atari Transputer Workstation
		Based on the INMOS Transputer, the machine was considerably more powerful than anything available on the market at the time.
		In 1986 Tim King left his former job at Metacomco[?], along with a few other employees, to start Perihelion Software[?] in England.
		While at Metacomco, much of the Perihelion Software team had worked with both Atari and Commodore International, producing ST BASIC for the former, and Amiga DOS for the later.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/at/Atari_Transputer_Workstation.html (653 words)

	Games - MetaComCo
		MetaComCo was a company started in 1984 and based in Bristol, England.
		The fact that the time allowed for the development of the DOS was very short and that MetaComCo had previously worked on another OS for the Motorola 68000, called TripOS
		MetaComCo also worked with Atari to produce the BASIC that was initially provided with the Atari ST
	listing-index.ebay.com /games/MetaComCo.html (193 words)

	Page 6 - Issue 25 - Metacomco MAKE
		By selecting 'edit' in a menu, your editor is loaded and run, automatically loading the file you are interested in.
		Operation is very simple, and, when working properly, it should save you much typing, and a fair bit of time.
		MAKE costs £49.95 and is available from: Metacomco plc, 26 Portland Square, Bristol, BS2 8RZ.
	www.page6.org /archive/issue_25/page_35.htm (903 words)

	TripOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		In a series of meetings it was decided that an outside developer would be contracted to complete the task, abandoning large sections of the existing OS.
		MetaComCo were chosen as the contractor, as a result of their existing TripOS 68k port.
		It was a minor task to get the operating system to work on the Amiga prototypes, but required some time to get it to interact with Intuition.
	www.amigau.com /aig/tripos.html (362 words)

	Re: [ql-users] Metacomco C and Sandy CP/M
		Re: [ql-users] Metacomco C and Sandy CP/M Timothy Swenson
		Re: [ql-users] Metacomco C and Sandy CP/M Wolfgang Lenerz
		Re: [ql-users] Metacomco C and Sandy CP/M Anthony W.
	www.mail-archive.com /ql-users@nvg.ntnu.no/msg01316.html (333 words)

	Sinclair User 40 - QL Software Scene
		THE QL Pascal Development Kit is a package of which Metacomco can be justly proud.
		The Runtime Editor is the same as that which is used in the Metacomco Assembler, BCPL and Lisp packages.
		The Metacomco package should make other manufacturers sit back and think.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /040/qlsoft.htm (1566 words)

	OSNews.com
		Basically MetaComCo was a company founded to commercialise some of the research products that came from the TripOS project in Cambridge.
		They had a generic OS based on TripOS, which was a germinal work on what later developed into what we now know as microkernels (it wasn't a true ukernel though).
		But their intended target for MetaComCo was Apple, with Commodore being a sort of safety out of the left field business deal.
	www.osnews.com /read_thread.php?news_id=18497&comment_id=265262 (437 words)

	Intentando adiestrar el escarabajo pelotero
		El problema de conversión de datos del compilador de Metacomco, no existe en el de GST dado que hay una universalidad de comunicación de parámetros y de resultados de funciones de tipo int.
		Otro problema, éste si que insoslayable es que el preprocesador de macros no soporta parámetros por lo que todo el trabajo con parámetros hay que realizarlo forzosamente a través de llamadas a funciones (aunque dado el peculiar mecanismo de trabajo del compilador de GST si cambiamos el ensamblador original por uno con macros con parámetros...).
		No cabe duda que el de Metacomco es el más completo pero tiene algunas sutilezas que obligan a estar al programador muy alerta.
	www.speccy.org /sinclairql/docs/programa/compilador.htm (1614 words)

	The Sinclair QL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		My mixed experiences with QL compilers continued, as neither the MetaComCo Pascal or C compilers were very good.
		I even went as far as writing a complete stdio package for the C compiler (in assembler, mostly).
		In combination with a hacked version of MetaComCo C, it survived a year or two as "EJC".
	linuxcub.adsl.dk /ql (447 words)

	ST Product News: First CADD, Arrakis Advantage Series, Metacomco BCPL, Make, OSS BareWare, Maxthink, Smart Watch, ...
		MetaComCo MAKE ($69.95) accepts a similar syntax to UNIX make and alds program devolopment by automatically recreating files which depend on other files.
		MAKE maintains any computing project, such as assembly and high-level language programs, and guarantees source and object code integrity by automating the process of compiling, assembling and linking programs.
		MetaComCo, 5353E Scoffs Valley Drive, Scoffs Valley, CA 95066.
	www.atarimagazines.com /v5n9/STNewProducts.html (1638 words)

	amiga page
		Metacomco created programming languages for the Atari ST and the Sinclair
		Luckily for Metacomco, they already built an operating system for the Motorola
		MC68000 processor, so all they had to do was to modify it for the Amiga system.
	members.tripod.com /pignol_g/Pages/amigahist.htm (1446 words)

	Sage
		PDOS Sages were used in some US satellite downlinks for nearly 20 years, just humming away...
		Metacomco in Bristol UK ported the complete multiuser Cambridge Tripos operating system to the Sage IV, together with a Fortran 66, an ISO Pascal, a BCPL and Cambridge Lisp - and then ported the REDUCE symbolic algebra system to the Lisp.
		This could be running five terminals while the Sage happily ran USCD Pascal IV on the 6th.....this is set up on one of my Sage IV's.
	www.geocities.com /mwigan/Sage.html (447 words)

	Dave Farquhar's Silicon Underground - Apple. you call this tech support? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Since the OS being developed internally at Amiga, Inc., and later at Commodore after they bought Amiga, wasn't going to be ready on time for a late 1984/early 1985 release, Commodore contracted with British software developer Metacomco to develop an operating system.
		Metacomco delivered a Tripos-derived OS, written in MC68000 assembly language and BCPL, that offered fully pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, and dynamic memory allocation (two things even Mac OS 9 doesn't do yet--OS 9 does have multithreading but its multitasking is cooperative and its memory allocation static).
		Commodore spent the better part of the next decade refining and improving the OS, gradually replacing most of the old BCPL code with C code, stomping bugs, adding features and improving its looks.
	dfarq.homeip.net /article.php?story=1155 (1381 words)

	Amiga Transputer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		I now have it in an A4000, which didn't work at first, but with an incredible stroke of luck I was put in touch with the original software developer, who fixed it for me.
		If the developer is to be believed, the Transputer would have offered 'up to 40 times the performance of a 68040 when fully loaded with transputers'.
		In addition to the MetaComco solution, an Italian company developed a second solution to the problem.
	www.amigau.com /aig/prototypes/transputer.html (1721 words)

	BYTE.com
		The Amiga's Microsoft BASIC is, as I write this, greatly superior to the Atari's present BASIC, but once again things are changing rapidly.
		Metacomco, a reliable outfit, is working with Atari, and its Personal BASIC ought to be up on the Atari well before you read this.
		Moreover, Metacomco is also working with Lattice to bring Lattice C and Toolkit to the Atari.
	www.byte.com /art/9604/sec5/art2.htm (5297 words)

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		Maybe it's just the way my machine is set up, but the GFA shell seldom works properly for me, and I always use the CLI.
		The GFA linker "gl" is very minimal, and reads the GFA library and library index in a proprietary file format.
		The GFA library is also supplied in Metacomco format if you wish to use a different linker.
	www.cucug.org /amiga/amiinfo/reviews/GFABasic.txt (2370 words)

	Comparison of file systems
		Metacomco released a so called "evolution" version of original file system for Amiga realizied by engineers of first Amiga Inc. (Formerly Hi-Toro) in 1982-83/85.
		To be true, Metacomco made a huge mess of early FS ruining its simple and easy structure.
		Originally OFS it was simply Amiga File System.
	www.mrsci.com /Computer-File-Systems/Comparison_of_file_systems.php (1470 words)

	Commodore Amiga Operating System
		One of the issues raised about this period was that AmigaDOS (as we know it) was a replacement for another project in development.
		The result of this was the contracting of MetaComco, a British company based in Bristol, commissioned to port TripOS to the Amiga hardware and integrate it into EXEC.
		At the time TripOS was an experimental system used on 'Computer Laboratories' 68000 and Z80 based system.
	www.amigahistory.co.uk /caos.html (480 words)

	comparison_of_file_systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Metacomco released a so called "evolution" version of original file system that was previously designed by engineers of Amiga Corporation (Formerly Hi-Toro) in 1982-83/85.
		Unfortunately, Metacomco made a mess of the early FS ruining its simple and easy structure.
		Name changed since the release of the "new" Fast File System, born in 1987 for the same platform.
	www.profreehosting.info /wiki/?title=Comparison_of_file_systems (2339 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Of Interest \| July 22, 2001
		A new version of the Metacomco Toolkit is now available from Melacomco.
		The toolkit consists of 11 useful AmigaDOS commands that are stored in the C directory and can be used in the same way as the standard DOS commands.
		Metacomco Toolkit 1.2 works under Versions 1.1 and 1.2 of AmigaDOS and can augment the Metacomco shell.
	ddj.com /184407903;jsessionid=R4P5TOMZEH5DAQSNDLQCKH0CJUNN2JVN?_requ... (1414 words)

	The QDOS saga
		Allowed the Atari ST version of Lattice C to run on the QL.
		This was version 3.04 of Lattice C which is a "bug-cleared" version of the Lattice C v3.02 that Metacomco C was based on (which will be refered to as QLC from now on).
		The real improvement that PDQ C was going to have over QLC (and the area needing the most work) was that the C library had been extensively re-written.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /itimpi/historyq.htm (1354 words)

	Aminet - dev/basic/ABasiC_patch.lha
		This.readme file is a shortened version of Readme.txt in the archive.
		Introduction ------------ Back in 1985, the first Amiga 1000 computers came with the ABasiC programming language by Metacomco.
		Unfortunately ABasiC does not work under Kickstart 2.0 (V36) and later; this patch fixes the problem.
	www.aminet.net /package.php?package=dev/basic/ABasiC_patch.lha (390 words)

	Tim King - CV
		I then worked as an academic at Cambridge and Bath universities, both teaching and running a number of research projects concerned with various aspects of RDBMS and operating system technology.
		In 1984 I joined a small start-up called Metacomco as Director of Research and Development, taking with me the rights to a new operating system called Tripos that I had worked on.
		I continued the implementation of this system, and was then responsible for gaining the contract to further develop this into AmigaDOS, the underlying operating system for the Commodore Amiga home computer.
	www.tim-king.com /cv.html (588 words)

	The Dave Haynie Archives - In the beginning was CAOS
		As most of you know, AmigaDOS was not the first choice for the top-level OS/DOS on the Amiga computer.
		What we now call AmigaDOS was really the backup DOS, based on an already existing OS known as Tripos (developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory by the TRIPOS Research Group, and converted with amazing speed by Metacomco's Dr. Tim King and his band of programmers).
		When the original, intended, designed-for-the-Amiga DOS failed to materialize (in what would no doubt be an interesting story in itself), the Amiga was launched with AmigaDOS, and the rest is history, so to speak.
	www.thule.no /haynie/caos.html (2742 words)

	LKML: Alexander Viro: Re: hfs support for blocksize != 512
		> > Metacomco designed it based on their TripOS.
		> Metacomco and BSTRINGS and BPOINTERS and all that nonsense > entered the picture when it was decided the originally planned OS was > would take too long to develop.
		So what Metacomco had was grafted > onto what the old Amiga Inc had done resulting in a hodgepodge > mess.
	lkml.org /lkml/2000/8/31/16 (773 words)

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