<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Lyall<div><br></div><div>Contexts are meant to separate modules with a name in one Oberon OS from the module with same name in another Oberon OS.</div><div>The legacy Oberon OS gets the context „Oberon“ and the new Bluebottle/A2 OS (coded in the programming language Active Oberon, a dialect of Oberon) gets the context „A2“</div><div><div><br></div><div>Here a little bit of background of the introduction of contexts in the language Active Oberon. Contexts do not exist in the legacy programming language Oberon.</div><div><a href="http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Language?action=download&upname=contexts.pdf">http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Language?action=download&upname=contexts.pdf</a><br><br><div>Basically it’s a SW thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, Ceres is a HW build at ETH where an Obern OS is running on. As contexts have someting to do with SW, but Ceres is a HW, I don’t see a reason to defne a new context for the Ceres HW.</div><div><br></div><div>Br</div><div>Jörg</div><div><br>Am 03.05.2018 um 17:07 schrieb <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</a>> <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Appears that Ceres was important enough and different </span><br><span>enough from later systems to have a context identifier.</span><br><span>It would give the system the distinction it deserves </span><br><span>and allow unambiguous reference on the same basis as </span><br><span>later variants.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Comments? Suggestions?</span><br><span>Ceres?</span><br><span>CO?</span><br><span>Something else?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks, Lyall E.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>This message was composed and transmitted by software designed to </span><br><span>avoid the need, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software.</span><br><span></span><br><span>123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789</span><br><span>Tel: +1 360 639 0202 Pender Is.: +1 250 629 3757</span><br><span><a href="http://easthope.ca/Peter.html">http://easthope.ca/Peter.html</a> Bcc: peter at easthope. ca</span><br><span>--</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch">Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a> mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems</span><br><span><a href="https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon">https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>