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

[Jan de Kruyf]

https://trac.inf.ethz.ch/trac/lecturers/a2/wiki

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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