[Oberon] Oberon Digest, Vol 98, Issue 2

[Luca Boasso]

Is it possible to have the source code of the Oberon0 distribution?
I would like to have a look at self contained small Oberon System

Thanks

Luca

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:00 AM, <oberon-request at lists.inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:56:09 +0200
> From: Jan Verhoeven <jan at verhoeven272.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon0 boot diskette
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> On Wednesday 13 June 2012 00:13:23 Aubrey.McIntosh at alumni.utexas.net
> wrote:
> > I have installed the Oracle VM Virtualbox environment on one of my
> > machines.  I attached the file oberon0.dsk that I have had for some
> > many years, and it booted very quickly and gave the familiar
> > behavior.
> >
> > I now have some questions:
> >
> > 1.  Has Oberon0 been updated so that it will add a partition to a new
> > (empty) hard disk.  The version that I have traps if there is not a
> > pre-existing partition.
>
> AFAIK Oberon0 is intended to run off a floppy disk (or something that
> pretends to be a floppy). Only when moving towards a disk based Oberon
> system the HDD comes into play. As far as I remember the Oberon
> installer does the formatting and such.
>
> These are my notes on Native Oberon:
>
>        http://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl/Oberon/nat0.html
>
> > 2.  Who would I correspond with to have permission and tidy paperwork
> > if I want to distribute this on USB sticks as part of a disk repair
> > toolkit.
>
> The Grand Master himself of course. He might be helpful as well with the
> (re)partitioning scheme you're after. Unlike Mike Spivey, Prof Wirth is
> a really nice guy. For a box of chocolate (Herschey?) he will do just
> about anything.
>
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> Met vriendelijke groeten,
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> Jan Verhoeven
> http://www.verhoeven272.nl
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