<div dir="ltr">Dear all<div>Niklaus Wirth's Institute of Computer Systems was on the 4th floor of the Rechenzentrum, Clausiusstrasse 55; this was the location at the time of the development of Oberon.<br></div><div>There is a photograph at:</div><div> <a href="https://www.tg.ethz.ch/de/kontakt/standort/">https://www.tg.ethz.ch/de/kontakt/standort/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Google Street View shows that the appearance of the building has changed.</div><div><br></div><div>best wishes</div><div>David</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 17:23, Jörg Straube <<a href="mailto:joerg.straube@iaeth.ch" target="_blank">joerg.straube@iaeth.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="DE-CH"><div><p class="MsoNormal">As the ETHZ is scattered all around Zurich, all buildings with ETH offices got a short name.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Normally (obviously with exceptions) the first two letters give a hint where the building is located (street/area/region name..) and the third letter discriminates the building on that street.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">AM_ = Auf der Mauer<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">CA_, CN_ = ??<br>CL_ = Clausiusstrasse</p><p class="MsoNormal">HA_ = Häldeliweg<br>HC_ = Höngg, Chemie (also Hochstrasse)<br>HI_ = Höngg, Ingenieurwesen<br>HP_ = Höngg, Physik<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">LE_ = Leonhardstrasse<br>SO_ = Sonneggstrasse<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">TA_ = Tannenstrasse<br>VO_ = Voltastrasse<br>WE_ = Weinbergstrasse</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Some exceptions</p><p class="MsoNormal">HG = Hauptgebäude</p><p class="MsoNormal">RZ = Rechenzentrum<br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have no clue why CA_ and CN_ is used. There is no corresponding street name near by. Formerly, in those buildings students were studiying chemistry. Might be that C was chosen for chemistry and N for North. But this is pure speculation.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jörg</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>Von: </b><a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca" target="_blank">peter@easthope.ca</a><br><b>Gesendet: </b>Sonntag, 23. Mai 2021 16:49<br><b>An: </b><a href="mailto:oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch" target="_blank">oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a><br><b>Betreff: </b>[Oberon] Re (2): EE, CE, CS buildings on the ETH campus.</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">From: Till Oliver Knoll <<a href="mailto:till.oliver.knoll@gmail.com" target="_blank">till.oliver.knoll@gmail.com</a>></p><p class="MsoNormal">Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 11:07:56 +0200</p><p class="MsoNormal">> So if you ask me: use any nice picture of the ETH Hauptgeb=C3=A4ude (HG)!</p><p class="MsoNormal">> No one will recognise the IFW - and again: I am not saying that Professor</p><p class="MsoNormal">> N. Wirth and Professor J. Gutknecht were actually already in that</p><p class="MsoNormal">> building when starting working on Oberon! I just can't tell.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon#Historical_Perspective" target="_blank">https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon#Historical_Perspective</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Another vantage point might give a better view, including the </p><p class="MsoNormal">Rechenzentrum and IFW. The Oberstrass neighbourhood?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/47.3839/8.5468" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/47.3839/8.5468</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That's the best I can do at the present. If someone can improve it, </p><p class="MsoNormal">certainly go ahead.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Incidentally what is abbreviated by CAB?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to all who have replied, ... P.L.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p><p class="MsoNormal">tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">--</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch" target="_blank">Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a> mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon" target="_blank">https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>--<br>
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