News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Oberon Pi by pdw on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:05AM (#43886259)
BTW This is essentially a port of a very early version of the Oberon operating system. Later versions got much fancier.

This early version was described by Wirth in his 1992 book "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler and a Computer". After his retirement he prepared a new edition of this book, for which he ported the system to a custom RISC architecture. (The original targeted the now extremely obscure NS32000.)

I think this Oberon Pi is just a standard Raspberry Pi Linux distro with an emulator for this architecture preloaded.

Re:Oberon Pi by skoodge on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:45AM (#43886401)
Are there any "guided" walkthroughs for someone who has never used Oberon (or any of its later versions like Bluebottle or A2) that demonstrate its most unique UI/UX aspects? Something along the lines of Russ Cox' Tour of the Acme Editor[0] but for Oberon?

Oberon seems fascinating and I would like to eventually play around with it in an emulator, but any resources that show how it's being used (as opposed to a description of its design like in Wirth's book for example) would be appreciated.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

Re:Oberon Pi by jonjacky on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:37PM (#43889795)
There is Wirth's 4 page guide, How to use the Oberon System

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/UsingOberon.p...

Also The Oberon Pi Quick Reference and System User Guide at this project page.

Re:Oberon Pi by lproven on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:37AM (#43902877)
There's a lot of Oberon documentation on Wikibooks:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon