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The listing of available versions of Oberon links
to various versions without a great deal of
explanation as to why a new user should want
one versus the other is confusing.

The linking to Native seems inappropriate
considering that Native is relatively obsolete.
Not that Native/Beta is up-to-date but it would
seem a better choice for those who intend to
install a loopback (all in one FAT file) Oberon.

When reading the documentation pages online
each part begins to explain some portion of
Oberon then gets sidetracked with exclusions
for various versions.

New users don't know or care about other
versions and certainly don't need to be
distracted by exclusions while trying to
learn about their version of Oberon.

It seems there was no desire to write separate
up-to-date documentation for each version
so that all versions are crammed together into
a confusion of exceptions.

Considering the diversity of file formats, and
changes of command names I think it would
be wise to have separate documentation
and leave out all the exclusions?

Difficult enough to become comfortable with
the use of a two button mouse on a three
button OS without being constantly reminded
that whatever version you use others probably
are using a different version with a different
file system and different command modules.

I could critique these pages line by line but I
think anyone who looks at what is there objectively
as a new user they would see what I see?

Charles.Angelich

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