[Oberon] Re: LinAos

[easlab at absamail.co.za]

>  > Because it's based on Linux perhaps even a sourceforge project 
>  > could be set up
> > which probably could give a lot of necessary infrastructure.
> 
 Pieter Muller wrote:-
> Sourceforge would be ideal since it provides all the infrastructure.
> 
> BTW I have a native oberon project lurking there, but haven't made
> much progress on it since I left the ETH.  We could reuse that (or
> start new one).
> 
? Does n-o not 'live' at ETH any longer !
Yes, always re-use if possible.

> It shouldn't be too much work to get Aos working on Linux.  For LNO
> just a few modules had to be changed (5 or so).  The linker was
> modified to produce Linux executables.  No compiler changes were
> necessary.
> 
LNO was unique IMO, in eg. enabling view *.pdf [via linux] and 
'process' it under n-o -- on the same box/VDU.

> Does anyone know how to contact Peter Matthias?
 
Pity if LNO, too, is unmaintainable for lack of documentation ?
It would be nice [how it's supposed to be] if LNO could leaverage
LinAos.

== Chris Glur.