[Oberon] Native Minimal Reqmts

Michael A. McGaw mamcgaw at ameritech.net
Mon Jul 29 21:12:56 CEST 2002


Pieter:

I understand your comments regarding 640X480 displays, yet, these are still
very useful.  I use the revised textframes to which you refer, and this
helps a great deal.

I would come at this with a bit of a different bent than most of what I have
been reading, as my use for Native is for embedded work.  As such, it is
desireable to keep to as simple a set of common hardware as possible.  Some
of the things I've thought of:

1. Retain 640X480 display capability
2. Expand memory handling to beyond 128 MB
3. Add carefully to the list of supported Network Interface Cards

I like the idea of a very minimal set of sources; here, I am thinking of the
file set of the original Oberon system- on of the great virtues of Oberon,
in contradistinction to other OSes of today is that one can get one's arms
around it and know it (and therefore expand/extend/adapt it) with reasonable
effort.  Other systems are simply too large and byzantine for this to be the
case.  In this connection, I seem to recall a project known as Straw Hat
that seemed to have this goal (a common root module set, deriving all other
versions therefrom).  What has become of this?

My two cents.

Mike





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