mfranz@ethz.UUCP (Michael Franz) (07/03/90)
Archive-name: mac-oberon/02-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: mfranz@ethz.UUCP (Michael Franz) Original-subject: MacOberon FTP site Archive-site: neptune.inf.ethz.ch Archive-directory: Oberon Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Announcing the Availability of MacOberon via FTP ------------------------------------------------ An implementation of the Oberon System is now available for Apple Macintosh II computers. MacOberon implements the complete Oberon development environment as a single process under MultiFinder. A Macintosh equipped with a MC68020 or better is required; the MC68000 processor is not supported. A minimum of one megabyte of memory is also suggested. Oberon consists of a compiler for the new programming language by Prof. N. Wirth, a direct successor of Pascal and Modula-2, as well as an extensible Operating System written in that language. In the Macintosh implementation, the Oberon system interface is modelled on top of the existing Macintosh OS. The libraries of all Oberon implementations originating at ETH (NS32x32, SPARC, MIPS, MC68020) are identical; applications are completely portable. MacOberon also provides a flexible interface for direct calls to the Macintosh Toolbox. MacOberon is available via anonymous FTP: ftp neptune.inf.ethz.ch (internet number 129.132.101.33) name: anonymous password: <your-e-mail-address> cd Oberon get readme The ASCII file "readme" tells you how to go on from there. Complete documentation of the system, as well as the report on the programming language Oberon are included in the distribution. Michael Franz franz@inf.ethz.ch (preferred), mfranz@ethz.uucp Computersysteme ETH Zurich Switzerland +41-1-254.73.14 Note: ----- Last week, I announced that I would be posting MacOberon onto the newsgroup Comp.binaries.mac. Unfortunately, I just got notice that my post bounced for exceeding 10000 lines. It took our mailer over a week to figure that out. Rather than splitting and posting again, I have arranged to have a permanent FTP site for offering MacOberon and future updates. I suppose this will be at least as convenient as the other distribution route to most users.