[Oberon] Project Oberon: New Edition

[Jan Verhoeven]

Claudio Nieder wrote:
> I see Oberon as a way to build a whole system - OS, Compiler, User 
> Interface - in a rather simple manner and formulated in a single 
> programming language, so that it is possible that a single person can 
> understand it as a whole.
Dear Claudio

We seem to agree. Yet, why reinvent the wheel for the 1023rd time?

Why spend thousands of hours in trying to duplicate a backdated Ceres 
station in an FPGA board and being stranded on a deserted island in an 
ocean of relatively standardised PC systems?

The Ceres served its purposes back then. It used to be so advanced that 
average users got scared of it. In modern days the Ceres hardware would 
be too whimsical even for basing a smartphone on it.

Therefore, if you want to give any kind of Oberon a shot, get yourself 
an ASrock ITX board, install one textmode Linux (Slackware 14.1 x64 
would be fine) and make (Native) Oberon run as an SVGAlib application. 
Linux will make the VGA, lpt, keyboard, usb, ne2000, mouse, etc run 
through thousands of stable drivers. You only need to get the base 
system running and then NO will take over.
In effect, one would need an Oberon0 compiler for Linux and then the 
system should be runnable.

-- 
Groetjes

Jan Verhoeven