Oberon/System Variants
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The Oberon system runs directly on several machine architectures and as a subsystem in several host operating systems. Order of rows is approximately chronological. For each variant (row), a link in the second column leads to additional information.
| Source Texts in Oberon[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host Environment[2] | Software | Installation archive |
Installation Instructions |
| Ceres workstation preserved Ceres |
The Oberon System V1 and V2 |
Implementation of Ceres3 by Udo Möller, 2023. Documented in NS32k site.[3] | |
| X86 PC with MS-DOS or compatible OS | Oberon for PC on an MS-DOS Base(PDF), Dis93 | Sourceforge Github |
README.TXT for System 3, Release 2.0 at Sourceforge, and at Github |
| Any system compatible with the included PAL library[4] | Cross-platform ETH Oberon, System 3[1] | Rochus Keller, github[5] | |
| Source Texts in Active Oberon | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host Environment[2] | Software | Installation archive |
Installation Instructions |
| Bare X86 PC | A2 = AOS = Bluebottle, Bluebottle in Wikipedia |
SourceForge | Contemporary instructions[15] |
| X86 PC with Solaris, Linux or MacOSX (Darwin). |
UnixAos = UnixA2 | Uni-Bremen, G. Feldmann | Uni-Bremen, G. Feldmann |
| X86 PC with A2 or UnixA2 or WinA2 | Oberon subsystem of A2 | Included in A2, UnixA2 and WinA2 | |
| Source Texts in Oberon-07 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host Environment[2] | Software | Installation archive |
Installation Instructions |
| FPGA RISC | V5, Oberon V5 in Wikipedia |
N. Wirth P. Reed | |
| Oberon/Android, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix or |
RISC Emulator written in C. | P. De Wachter | |
| Unix command line | Norebo[17] | ||
| Oberon RISC processor or emulation of it[18] | Extended Oberon | A. Pirklbauer README Documentation Oberon‑extended[19] Oberon-retro-compiler | |
| Web browser | Emulator written in JavaScript. | Michael Schierl | |
| Web browser | Emulator written in Java. | ||
| Linux or Mac OS | Integrated Oberon with an emulator written in the Go programming language. | Charles Perkins | |
| ARMv7, RISC-V or MIPS running Linux.
RISC-V running FreeRTOS on Sipeed M1s, Linux 32bit and Linux 64bit. |
Project Oberon Linux, POL; Using native compiler and Linux Kernel functions. |
P. Matthias | |
| JVM | Project Oberon using oberonc compiler from L. Boasso | ||
| Oberonc compiler for Oberon-07.[20] | L. Boasso | ||
| Any system capable of running QEMU | qemu-risc6 fork of QEMU | Charles Perkins. | |
| Any system capable of running BlackBox Component Builder | Oberon-07 compiler written in Oberon-2. | Alexander V. Shiryaev | |
| Linux, OS X or MS Windows | oberon-riscv-emu | Rikke Solbjørg | |
| Linux, OS X or MS Windows with oberon-riscv-emu or a bare RISC-V machine. | oberon-riscv | ||
- ↑ a b The Oberon language evolved through several variations including Oberon-90 in which Cross-platform Oberon is written. The differences between the latest 1990 version of Oberon and the 1991 superset, Oberon-2, are explained in bibliography references Moe91 and MoW91a.
- ↑ a b c d In some cases the host environment is a bare machine. Otherwise it is a machine running another system.
- ↑ Hypothetically a Ceres can also be built with wire wrap.
- ↑ PAL = Platform Abstraction Layer written by Rochus Keller and included with Cross-platform Oberon. Precompiled systems are currently available for Linux x86 & x64, Mac M1 & x64 and Windows x86 & x64. Porting to another system is primarily porting the PAL library.
- ↑ Links to precompiled images for MS Windows, Linux and MacOS are at the bottom of the Github page.
- ↑ Including the Transmeta Crusoe 5400 and the StrongARM SA 110 and SA 1110.
- ↑ A PC can boot from an Oberon0 diskette in an internal drive. In that case installation of ETH Oberon can proceed directly without involvement of DOS. Part 2 in the series includes a helpful explanation of the user interface.
- ↑ Sources for Release 2.0 are available. ASCII sources can be read with any contemporary editor. The Text sources should be read in an Oberon system; otherwise display by Linux gedit may be tolerable.
- ↑ Also referred to as "ETH Oberon Plugin for Windows" and "Spirit of Oberon System3 for Windows".
- ↑ A server at ftp://ftp.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/ remains accessible to an FTP client and installation archives can be retrieved. The Firefox browser is unable to navigate into the subdirectories.
- ↑ Sources following ETH Oberon closely. Note "Current state ... network not working."
- ↑ V4 can also execute on obsolete systems 680x0 MacIntosh and PowerMac with MacOS to version 9 inclusive, Amiga, Atari ST, DECstation, HP-UX, IBM RS/6000, SGI IRIS and SPARC with Solaris. Refer to https://sourceforge.net/projects/oberon/ and https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Projects/Oberon.html. A native version has not been produced.
- ↑ olymp.idle.at has verion 1.7.02. The last version at JKU Linz is 1.5.
- ↑ a b GPCP provides a compiler for Component Pascal; not a full Oberon subsystem.
- ↑ During the summer of 2019 work was underway at the ETHZ to improve portability and other aspects. Until the work is completed, the user may encounter difficulties with the native variant of A2. The Oberon subsystem remains available in UnixA2 and WinA2. A notice was in the mailing list at 2019-07-03. Patience is advised.
- ↑ The SDL2 library and a C99 capable C compiler are required. GCC or Clang suffice for compiling the emulator.
- ↑ A software allowing execution of an Oberon command without the Oberon system and interface. The Oberon compiler, for example, can be executed at the Unix command line.
- ↑ Extended Oberon does not modify the RISC processor; it modifies only the Oberon system which runs on it.
- ↑ Nomenclature explained in the Oberon mailing list at 2023-01-18.
- ↑ The TypeRules document is noteworthy. Specific aspects of types are discussed in the mailing list beginning at 2019-12-07.