Eccles (character) Eccles (character) "Mad" Dan Eccles () is the name of a comedy character, created and performed by Spike Milligan, from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series "The Goon Show". In the episode "The Macreekie Rising of '74", Peter Sellers had to fill in for the role in Milligan's absence. Very occasionally, he was referred to as 'Mad Dan' Eccles. Eccles was one of the show's secondary characters, but like his counterpart Bluebottle (portrayed by Sellers), Eccles became extremely popular and he is regarded as epitomising the show's humour. Milligan visualised Eccles as a tall, lanky, amiable, well-meaning, but incredibly
Bluebottle OS Bluebottle OS Bluebottle (formerly known as AOS and now as A2) is a modular, object-oriented operating system. Originally developed at ETH Zurich, it has some unconventional features, including automatic, garbage-collected memory management. It is the next generation of Native Oberon, the x86 PC version of Niklaus Wirth's Oberon operating system. It is small, fast, supports multiprocessor computers, and provides soft real-time operation. It is entirely written in an upward-compatible dialect of the Oberon programming language called Active Oberon. Oberon and Active Oberon are members of the Pascal family, along with Modula-2. A2's design allows the development of efficient systems based