srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) (04/23/91)
Is the source for the Oberon compiler available via anonymous ftp? I have found executables on titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de for MSDOS, Sparcstations, DECstations, and Macs, but no source anywhere. Thanks in advance.. Ron. -- | Ronald J. Srodawa | Internet: srodawa@vela.oakland.edu | | School of Engineering and CS | UUCP: srodawa@vela.UUCP | | Oakland University | Voice: (313) 370-2247 | | Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401 | |
mfranz@bernina.ethz.ch (Michael Franz) (04/23/91)
The source of the ETH Oberon compiler ***with a dummy back-end*** can be licensed for a nominal fee of Swiss Francs 1000. This compiler is complete except for the procedures that emit actual code, that is, constant arithmetic is performed, for example. A source license grants you the right to sell derived products freely, it only excludes resale of our source code. Several leading software companies are current licensees of this compiler. We do not currently license any code generators. I personally feel that it has been unwise in the past to do this, because some errors present in pre-release code generators showed up in commercially available products, and some of these persisted long after ETH fixed the errors and notified its licensees of the changes (or did they? before my time, anyway!) The compiler front-end, on the other hand, is *very* stable and has not been changed in a year. The Ceres, DecStation, Macintosh and SPARC versions of the compiler use the identical front-end. Michael Franz