Project Oberon
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Project Oberon
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#2Wow, this is excellent. The Oberon and Bluebottle OS materials have always been quite scattered, so someone putting them in a central index is quite convenient.
For those unaware, Oberon's main qualities are the fact that it's a full operating system written in a garbage collected Pascal-like language (actually made by the same person who initially wrote Pascal) which uses said language's module system to provide reusable/chainable interfaces throughout the whole OS, support for orthogonal persistence and most notably, its highly unconventional user interface that bridges the power of the CLI and the GUI together in this vaguely hypertext-like workspace where you can dynamically live program the UI itself through on-screen text that can serve as an entry point or continuation to perform all sorts of computations, things you'd normally write hacky scripts for. Closest analogue is Xerox's Cedar.
You should consider trying it and stealing a few ideas from it for the greater good.
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#3TL;DR (aka WTF?): The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer
a design for a complete computer system. Its simplicity and clarity enables a single person to know and implement the entire system
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#4if you are interested you should have a look at www.fullpliant.org also
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#5Wow, this is excellent. The Oberon and Bluebottle OS materials have always been quite scattered, so someone putting them in a central index is quite convenient. For those unaware, Oberon's main qualities are the fact that it's a full operating system written in a garbage collected Pascal-like language (actually made by the same person who initially wrote Pascal) which uses said language's module system to provide reu…
Thanks for this summary, I've been struggling for the last few minutes to try and figure out what the hell Oberon was. That sounds awesome!!
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#7TL;DR (aka WTF?): The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer a design for a complete computer system. Its simplicity and clarity enables a single person to know and implement the entire system
Take a look at the Wikipedia entry if you would like an overview of the scale/scope of the project and its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_%28operating_system%29
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#8Wow, this is excellent. The Oberon and Bluebottle OS materials have always been quite scattered, so someone putting them in a central index is quite convenient. For those unaware, Oberon's main qualities are the fact that it's a full operating system written in a garbage collected Pascal-like language (actually made by the same person who initially wrote Pascal) which uses said language's module system to provide reu…
Thanks for this summary, I've been struggling for the last few minutes to try and figure out what the hell Oberon was. That sounds awesome!!
Yes, thanks for the concise summary.
The only thing I didn't understand is the part about garbage collection. What does garbage collection mean and what is the benefit in this implementation?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for this summary, I've been struggling for the last few minutes to try and figure out what the hell Oberon was. That sounds awesome!!
Yes, thanks for the concise summary. The only thing I didn't understand is the part about garbage collection. What does garbage collection mean and what is the benefit in this implementation?
Programming language with automatic memory management. Look up "garbage collection" for all the details in the world.
The reason I brought it up is because it's a common trope that you can't do low-level programming with GC, and systems like Oberon are direct evidence to the contrary.
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#10I love the Lilith mouse that's used in the first photo.