[Oberon] 30th anniversary of Oberon

[rochus.keller at bluewin.ch]

@ Treutwein Bernhard & Joerg Straube

Thanks for your responses.

>> what do you want to do with it? 

If nobody else has done or want to do it I would like to add an Oberon group and repository to GitHub with a branch per major version so it is possible to analyse how it evolved, and in my case especially what language version were used. I have my own parser and don't need to generate code.

>> access to early versions is quite difficult at least for versions which were not officially published. 

That's a pitty. How do we know which versions were officially published? 

I assume there was one in 1988 for the https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-000487176 publication. There were two issues of the Oberon Guide in 1989 (https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005363230 and https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-000508514) and a 1989 release was mentioned in the HOPL paper. There was likely at least another release in 1990. But these are just assumptions.

Best
R.


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From: Treutwein Bernhard
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> Do we actually have access to the source code of the earlier versions of the Oberon System, especially the one referred to by the 

I fear that access to early versions is quite difficult at least for versions which were not officially published. 

--
Bernhard 
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From: Joerg
Sent on: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 13:52:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] 30th anniversary of Oberon

> Do we actually have access to the source code of the earlier versions of the Oberon System, especially the one referred to by the 1988 paper (see https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-000487176, ...

I don‘t. The question is: what do you want to do with it? You will need access to a Ceres machine or Ceres emulator.
The compiler will generate code for the NS32032, Display.Mod will need the Ceres screen and Mouse.Mod will connect to what ever mouse HW was hip at that time.

Jörg