[Oberon] Project Oberon for Mac

R. P. de Jong rdjong at mac.com
Fri Jan 22 16:07:26 CET 2016


My original post may have been the trigger for this.
The text of this mail was written in a program (OmniFocus) that feels free to use UTF-8. I copy-pasted it to my mail program which appears to accept that, even if set to "Plain Text".

Sorry about that.
R.P. de Jong


> On 22 Jan, 2016, at 12:38 , eas lab <lab.eas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> available for Mac owners who don’t want to tinker or boot into Windows
> 
> I wonder what the above line looks like in YOUR email client?
> 
> Who started this absurdity of replacing single-quote/apostrophe by  3 bytes.
> 
> Fortunately functional/piping programming fixed this VIRUS: to prevent my
> TTS from saying "dee oh enn tea" instead of "don't"
> 
> == Chris Glur.
> 
> On 1/11/16, Jörg <joerg.straube at iaeth.ch> wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> The programming language(s) of the operating system (assembly, pascal,
>> objective-C, Swift...) is of minor to no importance to the application. An
>> application uses APIs to call underlying functionality.
>> 
>> RP de Jong's Oberon emulator works on MacOS X.
>> By the way, Apple opened up a lot of their code to the public:
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/
>> 
>> br
>> Jörg
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Lars O
>> Sent: Montag, 11. Januar 2016 11:19
>> To: ETH Oberon and related systems <oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
>> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Project Oberon for Mac
>> 
>> R. P. de Jong wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I would like to inform you that a new "Project Oberon, Revised Edition
>>> 2013" product has just been released. It is aimed to make Oberon
>>> available for Mac owners who don’t want to tinker or boot into Windows
>>> to get it running, like myself.
>> 
>> 
>> You may want to clarify whether you mean Mac, as in the old mac or the new
>> macosx.  The old macs were based on pascal, whereas the new macosx is
>> objectivec based and bsd based, and such. The old macs were pascal systems
>> that people didn't really know about, well possibly assembly based too.
>> I'm not an expert on Macs, though, just spreading typical mac rumors... as
>> it's all closed source anyway, so no one truly knows.
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