[Oberon] [EXT] Porting S3 / V4 Oberon (was: File transfer)

[Skulski, Wojciech]

Andreas:

>You
>might think that it’s straightforward, but it wasn’t, at least not in
>a single-pass compiler (need for fixups for method tables, etc).

I never thought or said it was straightforward. I believe it is not. 

I do appreciate that you went quite a few steps in this direction. Without your effort porting the legacy code would be practically impossible. After you made the changes it is now somewhat possible. I wonder what else can be brought back at a moderate effort which you would be willing to spend. I am not expecting miracles. Not at all. 

You know that Oberon System compatibility was once a fact. These times are gone. The only time when the V4 systems were abundant and compatible was when the grad students took care of such systems. It was great. I remember running my B2 on Linux, Windows, PowerOberon, and HP Unix. Not a single line of code was changed. It worked like a miracle. 

(Un)fortunately, grad students graduated and dispersed, the hardware platforms disappeared, and the portability has dissolved. In principle the RISC5 Oberon could bring it back, but like you said, it was never a goal. 

W.