OBERON

Etymology:  see *

FAQ:
Michael Gallo:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/Oberon-FAQ/
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_category.oberon-faq.html

                                                 1. OBERON/F

MAC NAME: Oberon/F                                      

VERSION: 1.0  (educational)                                

README:
"Oberon/F is an integrated cross–platform development system for the language Oberon. Currently, versions for Macintosh System 7 and Windows 3.1/NT 3.1 are available; other versions are planned. Oberon/F fully exploits the platform-specific user interface. Access to the underlying platform is possible, but can be isolated into special low-level modules. All modules relying on portable interfaces only, which includes most of the Oberon/F services, are fully portable, and still adopt the platform–specific look-and-feel."

AUTHOR(S) :-
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1994  Oberon microsystems, Inc., Switzerland

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://neptune.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/OberonF/
Info-Mac
UMich
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/OberonF/ 
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/oberon/OberonF/             ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/OberonF/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/OberonF/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/OberonF/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/OberonF/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/OberonF/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/OberonF/
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://pascal.zedat.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/lang/Oberon/

                                                 2. MAC OBERON

MAC NAME:  MacOberon                                     

VERSION:  4.115                                

README:
Oberon is simultaneously the name of a project and of its outcome. The project was started by Niklaus Wirth and the author[= JÖrg 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 (see section Literature).

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. We refer to report for a definition of the new language, and to the third and fourth chapter of this text for some examples of its application."

AUTHORS:
Ceres engineering workstation:
Niklaus Wirth
Juerg Gutknecht
mac port:
Michael Franz
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1994 Computersysteme 
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zuerich, Switzerland.  

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://neptune.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/MacII/ 
ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/MacII/ 
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/MacII/         
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/MacII/ 
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/MacII/                                             
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/MacII/         
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/MacII/                                             
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/MacII/
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/oberon/MacII/ 
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/Oberon/MacII/                                                     
ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/mac/misc/
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://pascal.zedat.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/lang/Oberon/

PPC version:
ftp://neptune.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/PowerMac/     
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/Oberon/PowerMac/                           
ftp://oberon.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://pascal.zedat.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/lang/Oberon/

Old versions:
ftp://oberon.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/Oberon/Macintosh/
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/                     ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/  
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/                          ftp://pascal.zedat.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://MacFTP.RZ.Uni-Augsburg.DE/pub/programming/Oberon/ 
ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/     ftp://ftp.fht-mannheim.de/pub/mac/                                                   ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/oberon/mac/                                                     ftp://m2xenix.psg.com/pub/oberon/mac/                                             ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/mac/programming/
ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/mac/developer/lang/oberon/
http://multivac.ludd.luth.se/pub/mac/developer/lang/oberon/                                

                                                 3. OBERON LITE

MAC NAME: MacOberonLite                                       

VERSION: 1.0                                 

README:
"This is the first public release of MacOberonLite, a standalone programming environment for creating Macintosh applications. MacOberonLite uses the MacOberon 32-bit compiler to create fast and efficient code."

AUTHOR:
Oliver Dreer
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1989-93 by Institut für Computersysteme ETH, Switzerland

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/ 
ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/

                                                 3. MPW-Oberon

MAC NAME: MPW Oberon                                      

VERSION: -                                 

README:
"MPW Oberon is a compiler for the Oberon language. The Oberon language was developed by N. Wirth at the ETH Zürich. The compiler is based on the one described in the book “Project Oberon” by N. Wirth and J. Gutknecht (Addison-Wesley).  MPW Oberon fully supports the Oberon-2 language which is a superset of Oberon.
MPW Oberon is a stand-alone Oberon for the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop. Use the Oberon language to develop standard Macintosh applications and code resources. MPW Oberon integrates nicely into the MPW environment, so you may use all your standard development tools. MPW Oberon is able to use external procedures and variables, so mixed-language development is possible."

AUTHOR(S) :
MPW Oberon was presented at the Joint Modular Languages Conference 1994 in Ulm.
Universität Ulm, Fakultät für Informatik, Abt. Verteilte Systeme, Herrn Jürgen Geßwein, Oberer Eselsberg, 89069 Ulm, Germany

COPYRIGHT: -

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
Info-Mac

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From: mikeg@psg.com (Mike Gallo)
To: xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:38:20 -0700 (PDT)

 - What is the etymology of OBERON?
 - (OBERON = OBjEct oRiented prOgramming  laNguage? )
 
        At about the time that Wirth and Gutknecht began their 
project, the Voyager space probe transmitted pictures to Earth 
of the planet Uranus and one of its moons, Oberon.  Voyager 
was never expected to last that long.  
        As a small tribute to such a successful feat of 
engineering, and as an inspiration to himself, Wirth named his 
own project after the Voyager's (then) latest object of 
invetigation.
        You can find this story in the introductions to _The 
Oberon System_ and _Project Oberon_.