AmigaDOS pioneer Dr. Tim King dies at 70

Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away

Dr. Tim King, a key developer of AmigaDOS, has passed away at the end of July. King studied computer science at Cambridge, where he created the Tripos operating system. He later brought Tripos to MetaComCo, where it was adapted for the Amiga and became AmigaDOS. After MetaComCo, he founded Perihelion, focusing on parallel processing and transputers, and later the ISP UK Online. His work left a lasting mark on the Amiga's software history.