[Oberon] Oberon history.

[Chris Burrows]

> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Pablo Cayuela
> Sent: Saturday, 2 January 2021 11:04 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon history.
> 
> Following some links on NS32000 CPU I found today an article in a
> magazine about a talk by Professor Wirth in 1985, USA (see the index
> on first page).
> It mentions that he is working on a new Modula II (sic) compiler for
> the NS32000 and also an operating system (!), no mention yet of the
> name Oberon.
> 
> http://bitsavers.org/magazines/Micro_Cornucopia/Micro_Cornucopia_%232
> 5_Aug85.pdf
> 
> The author mentions having a tape of the conference and transcribing
> some parts, and I wonder: anyone have audio registers (or video or
> links) of conferences of Prof. Wirth from the 70's, 80's? In youtube
> there are some from the 90's on I guess.
> 
> Prof Pablo Cayuela
> Argentina
> 

Professor Wirth presented on Feb 9th 1985 at the 'Stride Faire 85' held at the MGM Grand hotel at Las Vegas. 

http://www.sageandstride.org/html/feb_1985_6.html

Maybe this was the one you were referring to? Unfortunately 'the MGM hotel forgot to make the tapes':

http://www.sageandstride.org/html/apr_1985_13.html

Jerry Pournelle wrote about it in the July 1985 issue of Byte magazine:

https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Byte-IDX/IDX/80s/86-87/Byte-1985-07-OCR-Page-0346.pdf

https://tinyurl.com/ydhkza9d

It is also mentioned in the blog by Rod Coleman the founder of Sage / Stride computer and organiser of the Faire, including a photo of him with Niklaus Wirth:

(Search for 'Stride Faire 85')

https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer

https://tinyurl.com/yaddlwlm

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
https://www.astrobe.com