[Oberon] Re (2): Re (2): "Inner core" and "Outer core".

[peter at easthope.ca]

From:	Joerg <joerg.straube at iaeth.ch>
Date:	Sat, 7 Dec 2019 18:41:20 +0100
> It has to do with booting the OS:
> 1) If you power-up your machine, the CPU gets initialized and the program counter is set to a specific ROM address
> 2) at this address resides the bootloader in ROM. it loads a few sectors from disk to RAM position 0. In these sectors is the linked inner core
> 3) After sector loading, the bootloader jumps to RAM position 0 and executes the inner core, basically the main body of Modules.Mod
> 4) The inner core loads the rest of the Oberon system (=outer core), basically Oberon.Mod and starts the Oberon loop.

Thanks.  

Definitely the boot process presents some opacity to a novice. Worth 
explaining. Addressed already in ETHZ pages including 
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/bootstrap.html .

Another topic for the todo list?  Might be enough to cite what others 
have written already?

Thanks again,                       ... P.


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