[Oberon] Re Status of Native Oberon

[easlab at absamail.co.za]

Peter wrote:
> > What is the current status of Native Oberon?
> > 
> > Is it orphaned?
> 
> The absence of a reply is effectively an answer, 
> yes.
> 
> Only lack of time prevents one of us from 
> collecting improvements and building another 
> alpha release.  A few serious bugs, such as that 
> in TCP/IP, remain unsolved and many new applications 
> in Aos are not available in Oberon.  With the very 
> small user population, work on Oberon is a tough 
> proposition.
> 
> When Aos first appeared viable for the public, 
> Pieter Muller described the requirements to put
> it on an i386.  Perhaps work in this direction is
> a better investment in the long term.
> 
?! who makes i386 ?
For low-power/portable, ARM seems the route.
Who uses oberon on ARM ?
Reportedly Wirth made his 'helicopter system' on ARM
so I'd expect some support.

> What is your objective?

Is Aos matured enough yet - how much can it do of:
* dial-in,
* email,
* News,
* get http,
* wiz-bang text editing like n-o,
* file/string/age search,
* partitioned files-space to at least the granularity & convenience
    of n-o IDE partitoning,
* view at least *.gif, *.jpg
* normal utils: zip, *decode, ......etc.  ?

== Chris Glur.