Hello All - Oberon update:
I managed to find a version of Oberon that would install in one large file (30 meg) on an existing FAT partition. I then discovered it only supports COM1 and COM2. I need COM4 for my internal modem. In the process of discussing my need for COM4 and other short comings of Oberon 3 with several recently Ph.Ds at ETH I have come to the conclusion that Oberon (now code-named BlueBottle) is not ready for primetime. Files on the FTP server at ETH are often in native Oberon formats (ARC and ZIP are not the ARC and ZIP we know them to be) which means if you have no working version of Oberon installed you can't twiddle the source files to fix it either. :-\ Oberon/BlueBottle uses no subdirectories at all. All files go into one huge partition. You must create what we would think of as "alias" to be able to list only certain files at one time. The user interface is interesting and somewhat unique but not really easier to use. There are few obvious advantages and most of what Prof. Wirth (father of Pascal) envisioned has been eclipsed by HTML, javascripting, etc. leaving the interface more of a novelty than a must-have (my opinion). The people guiding Oberon's development are nice people and obvioiusly intelligent. I'm guessing they will find that time has passed the innovations of Oberon by and it is only a novelty of little use in the real world. We shall see? Charles.Angelich DOS the Ghost in the Machine! Family And Friends wepages - Multimedia orginal stories with animation and sound, poetry, music, and photography: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf Tech pages for DOS and W31 at: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
