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Re:Project Oberon by kylebrown on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @09:48PM (#9849313)
Speaking of smalltalk, was project Oberon inspired by Alan Kay's STEPS project to implement a full OS + apps in under 20k LoC?

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf

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Re:Project Oberon by pjmlp on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:57AM (#9850032)
It was inspired by Cedar.

Wirth took sabbatical years to work at Xerox PARC in the two occasions.

After the first visit when we learned about Mesa, we designed Modula-2 and its OS Lillith.

On the second visit he got to use Mesa evolution, Cedar, which was his inspiration for Oberon and the Ceres workstation.

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Re:Project Oberon by pjmlp on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:09PM (#9854602)
Replying to my own post. As it is already frozen for editing.

Please note the sentence

> After the first visit when we learned about Mesa, we designed Modula-2 and its OS Lillith.

we is wrong! Stupid mobile autocorrection, it should be read he.

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Re:Project Oberon by dang on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:38PM (#9853324)
Wow, that's fascinating.
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Re:Project Oberon by dang on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @10:38PM (#9849466)
Oberon dates from the 80s, so much earlier. But they are clearly kindred spirits in wanting to make whole systems that a single person can understand.
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