[Oberon] V4 Native?

[Srinivas Nayak]

Dear Bernhard,

Your PDF reached us today.
Seems Pipermail didn't suppress it.

To my knowledge, Peter Muller's Native Oberon
was the only Oberon running on another bare machine except Ceres.
I think, if Wirth had chosen 8086 instead of Ceres,
may be today we would be seeing Oberon flourishing.

Anyway, if we remember major Oberon versions, roughly,
I feel,

Version 1:Oberon which Wirth created first.
Version 2: ?
Version 3: System 3 which implemented gadget system.
Version 4: Oberon which Linz university nurtured.
Version 5: Oberon which Wirth created for FPGA.

Is it?


With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

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Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/

On 07/28/2017 02:05 PM, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
>> Did V4 ever run on a bare machine?  The Linz Web site mentions it
>> running on Linux, Unix & etc.  Not on a bare machine.
>
> Afaik: No
>
> A V4 Native is something I several times thought about and since the
> System-3 kernel added persistent objects to Version-2 and V4 and S3
> are both based on V2, I guess it should be manageable. The differences
> between different V4 implementations may be seen/extracted from
> Claudio Nieders collection, which is available at sourceforge:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/oberon/oberonv4/ci/master/tree/
> and his (together with Ralph Degner) attempt to create a unified V4.
> See enclosed pdf "Towards a unified Oberon V4". I created that pdf
> from a Text some time ago and did not find the Text at the moment.
> --
>    Bernhard
>
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