Paul Onyschuk wrote: > I'm not completely sure if it's in interest of this mailing list, but > underlying philosophy isn't far away from that of suckless community. > Hope I don't upset anyone too much by posting this, on the other hand > maybe someone will find it useful. > > I won't describe in detail what Oberon is, since information about that > can be found on Wikipedia [1] and other sources. One thing I will point > out: there is clear relation between interface of Oberon and ACME text > editor from Plan 9. > > Niklaus Wirth recently revised his Project Oberon [2] - programming > language and operating system implemented for minimalistic RISC > platform on top of FPGA. Simplicity is assured by the fact that whole > description and/or implementation of system, language and platform must > fit into the book.
I've seen someone use Oberon in a virtual machine and it is a groovy OS. Sadly, I didn't see any pipes or other IPC like that, but the "toolbox" idea where you open "toolboxes" as text and then click/modify actions on them is awesome! If you replace Rio with Acme, Plan 9 behaves a lot like Oberon except it doesn't have rich text formatting. - Charlie Murphy
