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- Subject: Comp.lang.oberon FAQ (monthly) 1/3
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon,comp.answers,news.answers
- From: mikeg@psg.com (Mike Gallo)
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 20:47:04 GMT
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- Archive-name: Oberon-FAQ/general
- Last-modified: 1994 June 7
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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.
- Although I have aimed for accuracy, there is no guarantee that
- the information in this document is error-free. Neither the FAQ
- maintainer nor anyone else associated with this document assume any
- liability for the content or use of this document. If you find any
- errors, please report them to the address listed below.
- Thanks to all who have contributed! Further additions,
- corrections, and suggestions are welcome.
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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 machines
- listed below (followed by the most recent update).
-
- As yet, there are no ports for Linux or OS/2.
-
- Oberon v.4
- DECstation: Apr 12 11:55
- HP700: Jan 10 19:23
- MacII: Apr 12 11:05
- RS6000: Nov 2 1993
- SPARC: Dec 3 1993
- SPARC/Solaris2: Nov 26 1993
- SiliconGraphics: Apr 12 16:14
- Windows: May 18 12:16
-
- System3
- DOS: Jun 7 10:28
- SPARC: Aug 17 1993
-
- These ports are freely available by anonymous ftp from:
-
- ftp.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 early reports concerning the Oberon project are now out of
- stock. 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:
-
- 102 M. Odersky: Recursive Data Types and Report on the Mona
- Notation for Algorithms
-
- 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 and 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).
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