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Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon,comp.answers,news.answers
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From: mikeg@psg.com (Mike Gallo)
Subject: Comp.lang.oberon FAQ (monthly)
Expires: Sun, 1 May 1994 07:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: mikeg@psg.com
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon US
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 12:04:31 GMT
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Message-ID: <1994Apr8.120431.15039@psg.com>
Followup-To: comp.lang.oberon
Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions
(and their answers) about Oberon. It should be read by anyone
who wishes to post to the Comp.lang.oberon newsgroup.
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Many FAQ lists, including this one, are available by anonymous
ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in the /pub/usenet/news-answers directory.
Thanks to all who have contributed! Further additions,
corrections, and suggestions are welcome.
mikeg@psg.com
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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