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- From: mikeg@psg.com (Mike Gallo)
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- Comp.lang.oberon Frequently Asked Questions
- Miscellany
-
-
- Copyright 1994 Michael Gallo
- (c) 1994 Michael Gallo
-
-
- This is one of three documents that attempt to answer some
- frequently asked questions (FAQs) about Oberon. This text concerns
- some general topics on the subject of Oberon, while the other two
- are specifically about Oberon the language and Oberon the operating
- system.
-
-
- WHAT IS COMP.LANG.OBERON?
-
- The Comp.lang.oberon newsgroup is a forum for discussing
- Oberon, both the programming language and the operating system, and
- any related issues. Although not strictly accurate, this newsgroup
- is part of the Comp.lang.* hierarchy because it began as a spin-off
- of Comp.lang.modula2.
- For those without regular Usenet access, ETH Zrich has
- generously made Comp.lang.oberon available as a mailing list.
- Articles can now be sent or received via normal Internet e-mail to
- or from oberon-news@inf.ethz.ch.
- To get more information about the mailing list, send the
- message "help" to listproc@inf.ethz.ch. To subscribe to the
- mailing list, send the message "subscribe oberon-news@inf.ethz.ch
- <your name>" to listproc@inf.ethz.ch.
- Some members of ETH Zrich's Institute for Computer Systems do
- read and participate in this newsgroup, but Comp.lang.oberon is in
- no way officially related to ETH Zrich. Official correspondence,
- bug reports, &c. should be addressed to:
-
- Institute for Computer Systems
- ETH Zentrum
- CH-8092 Zuerich
- E-mail: Oberon@inf.ethz.ch
- E-Fax: +41 1 2519678
-
- Comp.lang.oberon owes its existence to the efforts of the late
- Christian Schaepper.
-
-
- WHAT IS OBERON?
-
- From "The Oberon Guide"
-
- Oberon is simultaneously the name of a project and of its
- outcome. The project was started by Niklaus Wirth and [Jrg
- Gutknecht] late in 1985 with the goal of developing a modern
- and portable operating system for personal workstations. Its
- results are an implementation of the system for the Ceres
- computer and a programming language.
- The development of the language Oberon needs perhaps a
- short justification. It became quite inevitable because the
- type-system of available languages turned out to be too
- restrictive to express the desired data model in a natural and
- safe way.
-
- Easy introductions to both aspects of the Oberon project can
- be found in back issues of BYTE magazine. The operating system is
- overviewed in "Oberon: A Glimpse at the Future", volume 18 number
- 6 (May 1993). The Oberon language is examined in "Oberon", volume
- 16 number 3 (March 1991). Both articles are by BYTE's European
- correspondant, Dick Pountain.
-
-
- OBERON RESOURCES
-
- The original project was launched and carried out by N. Wirth
- and J. Gutknecht for the Ceres workstation. As of this writing,
- ported versions of the Oberon system are available for the
- Sun-SPARC, the Apple-Macintosh-II, the DECstation, the IBM RS/6000,
- Windows 3.1 and Windows NT for Intel 386, the Silicon Graphics
- Indigo, and the HP Apollo Series 700. Oberon System 3 has been
- ported to the Sun-SPARC and MS-DOS for Intel 386. These are freely
- available by anonymous ftp from:
-
- neptune.inf.ethz.ch:/Oberon,
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/languages/Oberon, and
- gatekeeper@dec.com:/pub/plan/Oberon
-
- Whitney de Vries (whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA) has set
- up an anonymous ftp server to handle Oberon sources. The machine
- is gallileo.meakins.mcgill.ca ( 132.206.169.3 ); the directory is
- /u/ftp/pub/Oberon.
- Another possible source of information is the Swiss Oberon
- Users Group (CHOUG) at ETH Zrich (e-mail:
- oberon-user@inf.ethz.ch).
- ETH Zrich's technical reports are freely available, but many
- of the reports concerning the Oberon project are now a few years
- old and out of print. However, most of these older reports are
- electronically available in PostScript and/or Oberon text formats
- from the previously mentioned ftp sites in */Oberon/Docu.
- Some more recent technical reports that might be of interest
- to Oberon users are
-
- 133 J. Templ: SPARC-Oberon User's Guide
-
- 143 N. Wirth: From Modula to Oberon (Revised Edition)
-
- 144 J. L. Marais: The GADGETS User Interface Management System
-
- 151 C. Szyperski: Write - An Extensible Text Editor for the Oberon
- System
-
- 174 M. Brandis, R. Crelier, M. Franz, J. Templ: The Oberon System
- Family
-
- 203 A. R. Disteli: OBERON for PC on an MS-DOS Base
-
- Someone please let me know if/when these titles go out of stock.
- To order technical reports of the Institut fr
- Computersysteme, ETH Zrich, contact Mr. Ruettener (e-mail:
- ruettener@inf.ethz.ch).
- --
- A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there
- is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer
- anything to take away.
- -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
-