(...) 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."
"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...")
"MPW Oberon is a compiler for the Oberon language. The Oberon language was developed by N. Wirth at the ETH Zﾃｼrich. The compiler is based on the one described in the book 窶弃roject Oberon窶 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.
"Oberon/F is an integrated cross窶菟latform 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窶都pecific look-and-feel."
