<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">That?s another way of saying that Oberon isn?t exactly a growth</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">story. There were more Oberon developers in the 90s..</span><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Well, but at least one of the current coders working in Oberon has created something that will shake the foundations of realtime graphics. So Oberon might become less obscure again.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 6:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oberon-request@lists.inf.ethz.ch" target="_blank">oberon-request@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Oberon mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: V4 versus S3 survey (eas lab)<br>
2. Re: Translating ETHOberon 2.5 to C (eas lab)<br>
3. Re: V4 versus S3 survey (Skulski, Wojciech)<br>
4. Re: V4 versus S3 survey (Douglas G Danforth)<br>
5. V4 versus S3 survey (Andreas Pirklbauer)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 13:16:43 +0000<br>
From: eas lab <<a href="mailto:lab.eas@gmail.com">lab.eas@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] V4 versus S3 survey<br>
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It's important to realise why-would-you-want-to-use Oberon ?<br>
When you have a complex problem, that needs simultaneous inspection of<br>
many files,<br>
and intermediate reluslts, and especially where coloring parts of the<br>
textFrames shows<br>
the otherwise difficult to appreciate relationship between various<br>
sections of the text in<br>
the various TextFrames.<br>
In the 90s Oberon gave these advantages [still unsurpassed], but the<br>
introduction<br>
of new technology, eg, the monsterously complex USB, could have made ETHO<br>
redundant, had ETHO not been portable enough to be allowed to ride-on-top-of<br>
*nix.<br>
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For me: V4 was the only version I could find, while I was forced to use M$pook;<br>
and like the *nix version was some relief from the restrictions of M$, but like<br>
the *nix version lacked the ease of directly being able to read/write anywhere<br>
in the file tree -- which AFAIK only Linux Eth Oberon can do.<br>
LEO also has the massively powerful ability to directly execute *nix commands<br>
and scripts [and show the results]. So eg. the [absurd IMO] inability<br>
to <List the<br>
N most recently-ordered files>, needs only LEO's System.Execute to call:<br>
Lz /mnt/USBstik/Med/Cases/F*g/ 22<br>
to show the name and size of the ordered-by-recentcy 22 files, in directory<br>
[don't use M$pook baby-talk and call it a folder] /mnt/USBstik/Med/Cases/F*g/<br>
.....<br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 01:39:25 +0000<br>
From: eas lab <<a href="mailto:lab.eas@gmail.com">lab.eas@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: ETH Oberon and related systems <<a href="mailto:oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch">oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Translating ETHOberon 2.5 to C<br>
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<Note sheet> format must be very <graphic>,<br>
getting close to hardware ?<br>
Needing access to ETHO's functions which don't exist in C.<br>
C is just a language, not an OS.<br>
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ETHOberon is a language and an OS [driving hardware].<br>
These O to C translators wont handle the <Note sheet rendering>.<br>
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PublicDomain wily [my most used linux utility] is based on ETHO:<br>
mouse-chording & multiple TextFrames in multiple Tracks accessible<br>
on the single screen. But they've just copied the CONCEPTS and not<br>
tried to translate-Oberon-to-C<br>
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Unless your app just generates the <data> which is finally fed to some<br>
<standard renderer>. Eg. we can use any language/system to translate<br>
a text file to a corresponding pdf rendering of it.<br>
But the final <note sheet> is created by the pdf renderer.<br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 06:41:45 +0000<br>
From: "Skulski, Wojciech" <<a href="mailto:skulski@pas.rochester.edu">skulski@pas.rochester.edu</a>><br>
To: ETH Oberon and related systems <<a href="mailto:oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch">oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Oberon] V4 versus S3 survey<br>
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Hello:<br>
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I want to thank everybody who responded. Those who did not, please do!<br>
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The results thus far are available through this link. I hope it works for everybody.<br>
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<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-YSV9HDQJ8/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/<wbr>results/SM-YSV9HDQJ8/</a><br>
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My impression looking at the results is the following:<br>
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1. The community is small. Assuming that 29 persons who responded (thank you!) represent 1/2 of the community, there are under 100 Oberon users worldwide.<br>
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2. I was surprised that many of you prefer the original TUI Oberon over V4 or S3.<br>
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3. I was even more surprised to see six FPGA developers, plus seven potential developers. It is more than I know in the entire nuclear physics community, where FPGAs are critically important. Our community could serve the entire country!<br>
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4. There are three potential board developers, including myself.<br>
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5. The market for a new more powerful board is six customers.<br>
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So this is quite interesting. Good to know!<br>
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Thank you again!<br>
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Wojtek<br>
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Message: 4<br>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:43:48 -0800<br>
From: Douglas G Danforth <<a href="mailto:danforth@greenwoodfarm.com">danforth@greenwoodfarm.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] V4 versus S3 survey<br>
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Don't forget the Russian contingent who are developing in<br>
BlackBox/Component Pascal.<br>
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On 11/19/2017 10:41 PM, Skulski, Wojciech wrote:<br>
> 1. The community is small. Assuming that 29 persons who responded (thank you!) represent 1/2 of the community, there are under 100 Oberon users worldwide.<br>
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:49:46 +0100<br>
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> 1. The community is small. Assuming that 29 persons who<br>
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That?s another way of saying that Oberon isn?t exactly a growth<br>
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