Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase I) Bounty Assigned

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And to take advantage of a system that is being still developed, and has some neat modern features that AmigaOS for classics never had...

...partially because of limitations due to business reasons the CBM Kickstart authors were working under. Kickstart had to fit in the 512K ROM, period; no CD-boot, etc. I remember postings from them about developer meetings to try and reorganize code to squeeze in an extra 2 bytes(!) into the ROM. Let's go for a whopping 1 Meg !

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Actually I don't. Trying to do the BCPL interface in C isn't my idea of "fun". I'm sure it is possible, but IMHO certainly not worth the effort.

After seeing both 'BCPL' and 'fun' in the same sentence, I had to read slowly to make sure Piru hadn't lost it
Martin Richards, who unleashed BCPL and Tripos on the world, is still around, retired, and apparently active:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/

He  might enjoy the challenge, so perhaps someone could invite HIM to mess around with the BCPL mess? Sort of like a penance ...