[Oberon] Oberon V4 on the Raspberry Pi?

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Liam Proven
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 January 2021 12:29 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon V4 on the Raspberry Pi?
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 08:29, Joerg <joerg.straube at iaeth.ch> wrote:
> >
> > ETHOberon is written in Oberon-2, as LinzOberon.
> 
> Thank you for the clarification. In my copious free time I will
> update the Wikipedia article at some point.
> 
> So, as I understand it, there are just these 4 forks of the OS that
> continued separately?
> 
>   ETH Oberon [in Oberon 2] is (or was) the final continuation of the
> original system.
>   Linz Oberon [in Oberon 2] is a fork, without direct involvement
> from Prof Wirth   A2 [in Active Oberon] is a fork, in a forked
> version of the language, but the only version to run on modern
> hardware & to support SMP.
>   Project Oberon [in Oberon-07] is Wirth's official version, and only
> runs on RISC5 or an emulation thereof?
> 

There is another ETH fork 'Insight ETHOS':

"The Ethos system is an evolutionary successor of the Oberon system, and is implemented using the language Oberon-2."

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/140827

This eventually became the basis of the commercial system Oberon/F (the framework) and then Oberon/L (the language) which then morphed into BlackBox Component Builder (the framework) and Component Pascal (the language). The Component Pascal compiler is an extended version of Regis Crelier's ETH OP2 Oberon-2 compiler. 

There is still much development activity related to this, particularly in Russia: 

https://blackboxframework.org

https://community.blackboxframework.org/

https://forum.oberoncore.ru/

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