讣告：AmigaDOS 开发者 Tim King 博士去世

讣告：AmigaDOS 开发者 Tim King 博士去世
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

原始链接: https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html

计算领域的重要人物蒂姆·金（Dr. Tim King）博士于7月下旬去世。作为剑桥大学的博士毕业生，他最广为人知的贡献是对AmigaDOS奠基性的工作。在学生时代，他开发了Tripos，这是一个用BCPL编写的抢占式多任务操作系统。1984年，他加入MetaComCo公司，并将Tripos改造为Amiga操作系统的核心，深刻影响了该平台的历史地位。除了对Amiga的贡献外，金博士的职业生涯中还充满了其他创新。1986年，他创立了Perihelion公司，专注于超算处理器（transputer）技术和并行处理。后来，他进军新兴的数字领域，创办了互联网服务提供商UK Online。金博士的技术专长在操作系统设计和早期个人计算历史上留下了深远的印记。

计算机历史上的关键人物蒂姆·金（Dr. Tim King）博士已经去世。他最广为人知的成就是对 Amiga 平台做出的重大贡献：将 TRIPOS 操作系统移植为 AmigaDOS。 20 世纪 80 年代中期，当 Commodore 最初的操作系统项目（CAOS）未能如期实现时，Amiga 面临着发布危机。金博士将 TRIPOS 快速且高效地移植到了 Motorola 68000 处理器上，使 Amiga 得以顺利发布，从实质上拯救了这一平台。他的工作为 Amiga 此后多年的命令行界面和系统进程奠定了基础。在 Amiga 之外，金博士还是一位受人尊敬的开发者和企业家，他曾创立了 Perihelion 公司。在 Hacker News 关于他去世的消息讨论中，许多曾经的用户和开发者表达了哀悼，他们将金博士的工作视为自己接触命令行界面、C 语言编程以及走上软件工程和系统管理职业道路的启蒙。用户们深情地回忆起 Amiga 是他们进入计算领域的“入门砖”，凸显了金博士对一代技术人员的深远影响。

Dr. Tim King passed away at the end of July, his family confirmed upon request. King played a key role in the development of AmigaDOS and thus in an important chapter of the Amiga's software history.

King studied computer science at the University of Cambridge and earned his Ph.D. there in 1979. While still a student at the university, he developed the Tripos operating system, a preemptive multitasking system written in BCPL. In 1984, King joined MetaComCo and brought Tripos with him to the company. There, the system was further developed for the Amiga and integrated into the new computer’s operating system as AmigaDOS.

After his time at MetaComCo, King founded Perihelion in 1986, a company that focused on operating systems, parallel processing, and transputer technology, among other things. He later founded the Internet service provider UK Online.

King has made a significant contribution to the history of the Amiga. (nba)

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讣告：AmigaDOS 开发者 Tim King 博士去世 Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

讣告：AmigaDOS 开发者 Tim King 博士去世
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died