<div dir="ltr">Dear Peter<div>Pleased to have helped and happy to be cited.</div><div><div>I first visited ETH in 1983, when I had a demonstration of <i>Lilith </i>from Jiri Hoppe and I attended the <i>8. Fachtagung—Programmiersprache und Programmentwicklung,</i> in 1984<i> </i>and <i>JMLC2000</i>.</div><div>The department was in Clausiusstrasse in those days and also later when Brian Kirk and I visited several times to work with Jürg Gutknecht and Eugene Zueff on <i>Zonnon.</i></div></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Best regards</div><div>David</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 15:13, <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</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">From David Lightfoot dlightfoot at ........<a href="http://ac.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ac.uk</a><br>
Mon May 24 12:22:20 CEST 2021<br>
> Niklaus Wirth's Institute of Computer Systems was on the 4th floor of the<br>
> Rechenzentrum, Clausiusstrasse 55; this was the location at the time of the<br>
> development of Oberon.<br>
> There is a photograph at:<br>
> <a href="https://www.tg.ethz.ch/de/kontakt/standort/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tg.ethz.ch/de/kontakt/standort/</a><br>
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The story now includes a good color photo.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon#Historical_Perspective" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon#Historical_Perspective</a><br>
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David, the details certainly make the story more vivid but if you <br>
prefer that your message is not cited in the footnote just let me <br>
know; or remove the citation.<br>
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Thx, ... P.L.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I will be working from home for the foreseeable future. If you would like to speak to me online, please send me an email and I will make arrangements.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">David Lightfoot<br></div><div>Senior Lecturer in Computing</div><div>Liaison manager Informatics Academy, Singapore</div><div>Erasmus+ department coordinator</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics<br>Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment<br>Oxford Brookes University<br>Wheatley Campus<br>Oxford OX33 1HX<br></div><div>United Kingdom<br><br></div><div dir="ltr">+44 18 65 48 45 39<br><br><a href="http://cct.brookes.ac.uk/" target="_blank">www.brookes.ac.uk/ecm/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>