[Oberon] Concurrency support in Oberon

[Srinivas Nayak]

I feel, writing a Linux like OS using Oberon is possible...

But how to make a Oberon program run on bare Linux, i.e.
how to create runtime environment for an Oberon program
using Linux linker and loader, that is now on my head...

On import, we have to load modules on the fly...
We should be able to unload modules and re-load...
Forgetting for the time being Garbage collection and command activation...
And providing certain run-time data structures...


With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

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On 11/22/2016 07:34 PM, Lars wrote:
> Replying to old post below:
>
>> On 1/21/2016 5:13 PM, Srinivas Nayak wrote:
>>
>>> Can't we program a Linux like operating system using Oberon language?
>
> then..
>
> On Thu, January 21, 2016 6:55 pm, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
>> One would need to tap into the operating systems underlying "process"
>> structures.
>>
>
> Isn't that what oberon "system" modules are for, escaping in emergency...
>
>
>> The SAIL (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language) which was
>> algol-like had its own processes built into the language where process
>> switch points were invisibly inserted into the generated code.  All of the
>> complexity of communication and blocking between processes then needed to
>> be handled, something I believe NW wanted to avoid.
>>
>
> Since most operating systems are written in C, and C has nothing like what
> Sail had, how does C allow one to tap into processes without being a full
> fledged Sail language...
>
> i.e. Oberon is very similar in functionality to C, but at a slightly
> higher level.. and Oberon has the "system" escape capability...
>
> So are we saying that even with the System module capability or "unsafe"..
> one can still not create a linux (actually BSD) like operating system?
> What is oberon lacking if so?
>
> C has something for processes that Oberon currently doesn't?
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