[Oberon] native A2/Oberon on Raspberry Pi

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Liam Proven
> Sent: Saturday, 5 November 2016 3:01 AM
> To: Treutwein Bernhard
> Cc: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] native A2/Oberon on Raspberry Pi - was: Oberon-
> 2 on FPGA
> 
> 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.
> 

What you have found are the ETH system archives of the various versions of the original Oberon operating system which were completed many years ago. The latest ETH incarnation of the Oberon system is called A2. The evolution from the original Oberon OS to A2 as described on the ETH Oberon website is: 

"Originally 'Oberon' was also the name of the runtime systems. For practical reasons the systems nomenclature was changed, while several new systems based on the Oberon language were developed by young generations of computer scientists at ETH (AOS (2003), Bluebottle(2005), A2 (2008)) 

The new System since 2008 is now called A2. A2 is the name of a modern integrated software environment. It is a single-user, multi-core, multi-tasking system that runs on bare hardware or on top of a host operating system."

The related downloads, documentation etc. are now available from the "Oberon Community Platform". A good place to start is by reading the documentation:

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front

Regards,
Chris Burrows

CFB Software
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