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- From: g_dotzel@tron.gun.de (Guenter Dotzel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: product announcement Oberon-2 for VAX/VM
- Message-ID: <28T3E9AC7T@tron.gun.de>
- Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 11:22:00 +0200
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- Press release, Erlangen, 29-Aug-1992
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- H2O V1.00
- Modula-2 Compiler
- VAX/VMS Implementation
- with ISO Modula-2 Standard Library
-
- This is a summary of the *world's most ignored* professional Oberon-2
- Compiler Kit for VAX/VMS.
- MVR is based upon Regies Crelier's OP2 release from ETH-Zuerich and
- is under development at ModulaWare GmbH since Jan-1991 (V0.9).
- In the past 6 (six) months, ModulaWare further developed H2O; the most
- important features of the current release are:
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- - Strongly conforms to the language described in the Report
- "The Programming Language Oberon-2 by Moessenboeck/Wirth
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- - fully compatible with all other Oberon and Oberon-2 Compilers based
- on the ETH-Zuerich release.
-
- - underscores "_" allowed anywhere in identifiers (language extensions
- as agreed with R. Crelier)
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- - world's first full ISO Modula-2 Standard Library implementation for Oberon-2:
- - efficient implementation based on VAX/VMS RMS system services
- - full validity check for ChanId and DeviceId parameters
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- - foreign interfaces to operating system services & definitions and
- layered software products
- - X11
- - DECWindows
- - OSF/Motif
- - and others such as VAXLab, GKS, LIB, MTH, SMG, PPL, OTS, FMS, SYS...
- via foreign interface modules using Modula-2 compatible calling
- conventions (ModulaWare's Modula-2 Compiler MVR)
-
- - fully embedded in VMS environment including VMS symbolic/source-level
- run-time debugger support.
-
- Guenter Dotzel
-
- For more information contact:
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- ModulaWare GmbH, Wilhelmstr. 17A, D-W 8520 Erlangen/F.R.Germany
- Modula-2 & Oberon-2 Compiler Manufactur (VAX/VMS, OS/2 and Unix-Platforms)
- Tel. +49 (9131) 208395, Fax +49 (9131) 28205.
- E-mail/Internet: 100023.2527@compuserve.com
- g_dotzel@ame.nbg.sub.org
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