MetaComCo
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| Company type | Limited |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Defunct | 1988 |
| Fate | Bankrupt |
| Headquarters | , England |
Key people | Peter Mackeonis |
| Products | BASIC interpreters, AmigaDOS |
MetaComCo (MCC) was a computer systems software company started in 1981 and based in Bristol, England by Peter Mackeonis and Derek Budge. A division of Tenchstar, Ltd.
MetaComCo's first product was an
In 1984 Dr. Tim King joined the company, bringing with him a version of the operating system TRIPOS for the Motorola 68000 processor which he had previously worked on whilst a researcher at the University of Cambridge.
This operating system was used as the basis of AmigaDOS (file-related functions of AmigaOS); MetaComCo won the contract from Commodore because the original planned Amiga disk operating system called Commodore Amiga Operating System (CAOS) was behind schedule; timescales were incredibly tight and TRIPOS provided a head start for a replacement system.
MetaComCo also developed ABasiC for the
The company also sold the
Several of the team at MetaComCo went on to found Perihelion Software. Mackeonis founded Triangle Publishing, the software publishing company responsible for creating the ST Organizer for the Atari ST and PC Organizer and Counterpoint (a GUI system) for Amstrad Computers and GoldStar computers.
MetaComCo BASIC was available on the Singapore Teleview videotext receiver.
MetaComCo was disestablished in 1988
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