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Re:Crystal 0.33 by pjmlp on Saturday February 15, 2020 @03:56AM (#22334117)
I just wish that they would had chosen another name for the OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)

https://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/

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Re:Crystal 0.33 by scroot on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:29AM (#22335165)
The Oberon boon -- especially the 2013 update -- is something that is, unfortunately, uncommon in the field: a total description of a computing system, top to bottom.

If you or anyone reading this has access to that book in epub or similar ereader format I'd greatly appreciate. It seems Wirth published only a PDF (probably from MS Word)

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Re:Crystal 0.33 by pjmlp on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:29PM (#22336557)
The original books were written in the Oberon System Word Processor, and you can access them as part of Oberon live documentation.

For example by running A2 and starting Oberon System 3 from it.

Regarding converting them into epub, I guess it is a question of copyright, even if Wirth has made the PDF versions freely available, but I am no lawyer.

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