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From: mfranz@bernina.ethz.ch (Michael Franz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Oberon For Macintosh
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.140946.11305@bernina.ethz.ch>
Date: 18 Mar 91 14:09:46 GMT
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Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zuerich
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The primary distribution site for the official ETH implementation of
Oberon for the Macintosh is neptune@inf.ethz.ch  (129.132.101.33).
It is also available from apple.com, BIX and various other sources, but
only the ETH site is guaranteed to be up-to-date.


On another issue:

> It is somewhat regrettable that Niklaus Wirth left the issue of libraries so
> open-ended that programmers cannot rely upon a minimal set of libraries from
> implementation to implementation.

I think we pretty well got that message.  In Oberon, the standard set of
libraries is definite and present in every implementation.  These
interfaces are general enough to offer virtually anything that one could
want from an OS, but through a minimal set of orthogonal procedures.
Martin Reiser's book "The Oberon System" is the definite specification
of this interface (Addison Wesley, February 1991).

Michael Franz
Computersysteme, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Please use "franz@inf.ethz.ch" when sending mail to me.