[Oberon] native A2/Oberon on Raspberry Pi - was: Oberon-2 on FPGA

[Liam Proven]

On 3 November 2016 at 13:32, Treutwein Bernhard
<Bernhard.Treutwein at verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> apparently A2 runs natively on the Raspberry Pi; it was used in the lecture
> on System Construction by Felix (see: http://lec.inf.ethz.ch/syscon/2015/
> Case Study 2). Sorrily I was not able to cross compile it under WinAos due
> to the lack of documentation, but Raspberry Pi exists as a target in the
> Builder.Tool. I did not have the time to dig deeper and send Felix a crash
> report, although that is on my to do list ...

Thank you for this! I appreciate the link.

I will contact Dr Friedrich and ask if any of the code is publicly available.

I am told there is also a Linux-hosted version for ARM Linux, but I've
been unable to find any additional information. I must say that
information about the Oberon family of operating systems seems
remarkably sparse on the Web -- most of ETH's own links are dead, or
contain extremely dated information.

For instance the downloads on ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ are for
1980s/1990s hardware such as Amiga, Atari ST and Win95. (!)

The FTP site linked from http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/ points to
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ and that has a last-changed date of
2005. Screenshots are from the 1990s. Most of the downloads I can see
were last modified about 2003.

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