Oberon

(...) a few days ago a German geometrician proposed to send a scientific expedition to the steppes of Siberia. There, on those vast plains, they were to describe enormous geometric figures, drawn in characters of reflecting luminosity, among which was the proposition regarding "the square of the hypotenuse", commonly called the "Ass's Bridge" by the French. "Every intelligent being," said the geometrician, "must understand the scientific meaning of that figure. The Selenites, do they exist, will respond by a similar figure; and, a communication being thus once established, it will be easy to form an alphabet which shall enable us to converse with the inhabitants of the moon". So spoke the German geometrician, but his project was never put into practice, and up to the present day there is no bond in existence between the earth and  her satellite.
--> Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon. 
In: Dan Pedoe, Geometry and the Liberal Arts. Penguin Books 1976, p.  28

AUTHORS:
"The original Oberon System was created by Niklaus Wirth and Juerg Gutknecht for the Ceres engineering workstation."

Pages:
http://www-cs.inf.ethz.ch/Oberon.html
http://ics.inf.ethz.ch/Oberon.html
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~laden/Oberon.html
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~mcintosh/Oberon/

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. ETH Zuerich Systems

                                            1. Oberon V4

                                               MacOberon

VERSION - UPDATE:  4.1F (09-13-95) 

README:
"Oberon V4 is a cleared up version of Oberon. It resulted from the desire to integrate the text editors Edit and Write."

AUTHOR:
mac port:
Michael Franz
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1989 -1995 Computersysteme 
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zuerich, Switzerland.

TYPE:
Freeware (: Postcardware: "Picture postcards are preferred, because we can paste them to our wall...")  

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/MacII/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/Oberon/MacII/ 

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/MacII/      
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/MacII/         
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/MacII/  
ftp://statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/mirrors/ftp.inf.ethz/Oberon/MacII/ 
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/MacII/
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/MacII/

                                       2. Oberon System3

                                        MacOberon System3

VERSION - UPDATE:  
System 3 Release 2.03  (08-17-95)
System 3 Release 2.04ß (01-03-96)

README:
"The original project was launched and carried out by N. Wirth and J. Gutknecht for the Ceres workstation. Ported versions of the Oberon language and system are now available for numerous commercial machines, among them MacIntosh, IBM RS/6000, DEC station, SPARC station and IBM PC/386/486 compatibles.
System 3 is an object-oriented evolution of the original Oberon system. It supports a generic mechanism for the management of both visual objects and abstract models. Gadgets (TM) is a graphical user interface (GUI) kit that has been specifically designed for System 3."
"MacOberon System 3 Relase 2.03 for MC680x0/68881 Macintosh. This is the public release of Oberon System 3 Relase 2.03 for MC680x0/68881 Macintosh. It has been developped by the ETH Insitute for Computersystems."

AUTHORS:
mac port:
Michael Franz
Thomas Kistler
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1989 - 1995 Computersysteme ETH Zuerich, Switzerland.

TYPE:
Freeware (: Postcardware: "Picture postcards are preferred, because we can paste them to our wall...")  

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
                                      2.04ß
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/
                                      2.03 (68k)
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/R203-68k/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/R203-68k/
                                      2.03 (ppc)
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/R203-PPC/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/R203-PPC/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/
ftp://statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/mirrors/ftp.inf.ethz/Oberon/System3/Macintosh/
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/System3/Macintosh/
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/System3/Macintosh/

                       2. Non - ETH Zuerich Systems

                                              1. Ulm

                                             Oberon-2

                                            MPW Oberon

Pages:
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/oberon/
http://rr-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de/projekte/MPWOberon/AboutMPWOberon.html

VERSION - UPDATE: 2.1106 (07-03-95)                                 

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 MPW. 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."
"The new version fixes several bugs in the code generation (especially for Oberon-2 type-bound procedures) and includes more support for Ulm's Oberon."

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:
(c) Oberon by ETH Zuerich 

TYPE:
Freeware

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-ulm.de/pub/systems/mac/

Other sites:
ftp://macftp.rz.uni-augsburg.de/pub/programming/oberon/
Info-Mac
UMich

                                              2. Linz

                                           Oberon V4

Page:
http://oberon.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Oberon.html

                                       Power MacOberon

VERSION - UPDATE:  1.4 (07-10-95)
ppc+ppc 256 colors support

README:
"Power MacOberon Version 1.4.
Official release of Oberon V4 for the PowerMac"

AUTHORS:
PowerMac port:
PowerMacOberon was implemented at the Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz.
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) Oberon by ETH Zuerich 
(c) 1994 Universitaet Linz (Austria)

TYPE:
Freeware  

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://oberon.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/Oberon/PowerMac/

Other sites:
ftp://statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/mirrors/linz/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/Oberon/PowerMac/ 
ftp://statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/mirrors/ftp.inf.ethz/Oberon/PowerMac/    
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/PowerMac/
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/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://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/oberon/PowerMac/
ftp://macftp.rz.uni-augsburg.de/pub/programming/Oberon/ 
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Oberon/
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/lang/Oberon/

                      3. Oberon microsystems, Inc.

                                             Oberon/F

Page:
http://is.eunet.ch:80/customers/omi/

                                          [Mac] Oberon/F 

VERSION - UPDATE: 
educational version 1.2 (06-05-96)

README:
"Oberon/F is an integrated cross–platform development system for the language Oberon... 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 :-
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1994 - 1995 Oberon microsystems, Inc. 
Technoparkstrasse 1
CH-8005 Zuerich
Switzerland

TYPE:
Shareware: 
educational version: 150 sFr  
(Full version: 450 sFr )

INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/Oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/

Other sites (mirrors):
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/Oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/Oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/Oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/
ftp://statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/mirrors/ftp.inf.ethz/Oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/OberonF/MacOberonF12/