[Oberon] Slim binaries / OMI / Juice implementation details availability

[Chris Burrows]

> 
> From: Erik Terpstra [mailto:erterpstra at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:33 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems; chris at cfbsoftware.com
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Slim binaries / OMI / Juice implementation
> details availability
> 
> Thank you, I have been able to run the slim binaries enabled compiler
> using the win32 version on an old laptop.
> 
> I am now able to generate hexdumps of actual slim binaries to compare
> them with the compiler/loader source code and the description in
> Michael Franz's dissertation.
> 

Some more digging around unearthed a Slim Binary Decompiler that supposedly decodes a Slim Binary (.Obj) file back into an Oberon-2 (.Mod) source format. 

http://caesar.ics.uci.edu/laski/SlimBinaryDecoder.html

The Mar 08 2000 snapshot on web.archive.org has the C++ source code.

Regards,
Chris Burrows

CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com