Anyone wondering what this "Oberon" is I mention from time to time might want to take a peek at this screenshot of Oberon browsing my tech website.
http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/grafix/snapsh2.gif The HTML is not interpreted precisely but well enough to use the website and much nicer than a text-only browser would be. :-) Oberon fits on one floppy disk. It's a 5th gen multitasking OS and programming language combined into one user interface. Oberon is "legacy friendly", free, and will install on the `386 Intel platform using only 5 meg of the hard drive for a minimal install. My install in a loopback (one large DOS file) system with almost _everything_ is about 22 meg right now. Oberon does have it's own partition type and file system but I'm using the one large file install and it works great. No disturbing my DOS and W31 software and partitioning to try Oberon on your machine. Something like what W9x desktop would be like if you could create "icons" using text and then click on them with access to a Windows Visual compiler and all the source code for Windows stored into just 15 megabytes of files. ;-) The Oberon language is the inheritor of the PASCAL MODULA2 languages with an OS added in the process. Quite unique and really not too shabby once you get used to the idea that anything can be changed even while Oberon is executing. Educational at the least, with almost unlimited potential for those willing to do some rewriting of the code and learn the language. The website is a bit confusing to navigate and the FTP server is even worse (IMO) but I am using the Oberon/Native/Update/Beta version 08.12.00 (the date). There are versions of Oberon Sys 3 for W31, W9x, DOS, Linux, and others. The latest big-brother version of Oberon is named "BlueBottle", a reference to the default color scheme. BBottle requires a Pentium and 1024x768 video but is quite impressive even before completion. http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/install.html There is an elist similar to this one where the maintainers and programmers of Oberon code are available for assistance. :-) Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Stories, poems, music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf 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
