I downloaded a Oberon system once and I couldnot understand how to do anything. I could see stuff on the screen but the way the windows worked got me quite confused. It's nice to know that people are still working on it and I will try to get a book to learn more about it.
Karl On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Sure. He was invited to spend a year in CSL in the mid 70s and decided to > do an Alto like machine with an Alto-like UI and that ran Alto-like > languages (turned out to be an odd combination of Mesa and Smalltalk). > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jakob Praher <j...@hapra.at> > *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:02 PM > *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Ceres and Oberon > > Am 30.08.11 21:46, schrieb Jakob Praher: > > Dear Eduardo, > > > > Thanks for sharing this. There is a great overlap between Alan's and > > Niklaus Wirth's sentiments. > > Very inspiring and to the point. Is anybody using Oberon currently as a > > working environment? > > > > @Alan: Can you remember the discussion with Niklaus from the PARC days? > > > > Best, > > Jakob > > > > > > Am 30.08.11 20:25, schrieb Eduardo Cavazos: > >> Presentation from earlier this year by Niklaus Wirth on Oberon: > >> > >> > http://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2011/oberon/?doi=10.3930/ETHZ/AV-5879ee18-554a-4775-8292-3cf0293f5956&autostart=true > >> > >> Towards the end Niklaus demos an actual Ceres workstation. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> fonc mailing list > >> fonc@vpri.org > >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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