[Oberon] RISC emulator

[eas lab]

Ok, then it's got the essential features.
Actually, I remember the original BYTE article [? 70s ?]
showed the 2:1 width-ratio User/System columns.

So perhaps the magical HCI was part of Oberon from the start.
All this talk about VMs is separate from the HCI.

VMs to run P-code interpreters are easy.
I made them for:
  HP desktop calculator/computer driving IEEE488 instruments
    [to be able to write in a nice PASCAL-like syntax];
  Fairchild F8 microProc,
  68** family,
  86X [16bit:cpm stage]

There were only a couple-of-dozen pseudo-instructions.
Initially I only had byte & byte-array types.
Then I think I had pointers.
The cpm version had 16-bit-words I think.

Finally I thought I'd look at Turbo Pascal, since perhaps it  wasn't
just another stupid fad. Then I discovered what I'd been missing!!!

The HCI is by far the most important aspect.

== Chris Glur.




On 3/19/14, Chris Burrows <chris at cfbsoftware.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: eas lab [mailto:lab.eas at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2014 9:53 PM
>> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>> Subject: Re: [Oberon] RISC emulator
>>
>> Can this thing do like S3 / V4: you can work heads-up: without needing to
> bob
>> your head upNdown between the kybrd & screen?
>
> As far as I recall it is more like the earlier Oberon systems (e.g. the
> v2.6
> SPARC Oberon that I was using in 1992) than the System 3 that came about
> five years later.
>
> I was amused when I started working with the RISC Oberon system. I had been
> happily using it for about 30 minutes before I realised that I didn't have
> the keyboard plugged in!
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> Astrobe: Oberon for ARM7 and Cortex-M3
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>
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