a2 VS TheOberonCompanionCD

Compare a2 vs TheOberonCompanionCD and see what are their differences.

a2

Active Oberon System (AOS), aka A2, and Bluebottle OS (by btreut)

TheOberonCompanionCD

This is the original contents of the CD to the book "The Oberon Companion" (vdf, 1998) (by OberonSystem3)
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a2 TheOberonCompanionCD
2 3
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2.7 0.0
about 1 month ago over 1 year ago
Modula-2 C
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a2

Posts with mentions or reviews of a2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.

TheOberonCompanionCD

Posts with mentions or reviews of TheOberonCompanionCD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-04.
  • KolibriOS on Single Floppy Disk
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023
    "the core parts of KolibriOS (kernel and drivers) are written entirely in FASM assembly language", that's amazing. Porting it to another architecture is likely a full rewrite.

    In comparison, the Oberon System 3 (see e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20120630140329/http://www.ethobe...), which was written in the Oberon high-level language, also had a graphical user interface and network support and required 4MB RAM and 2MB disk space (see https://github.com/OberonSystem3/TheOberonCompanionCD/blob/m...).

  • Oberon: The tiniest but richest FOSS HLL and OS you've never heard of
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
    Meanwhile I found a version of the S3 source code, see https://github.com/OberonSystem3/TheOberonCompanionCD. There doesn't seem to be a coroutines module either.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing a2 and TheOberonCompanionCD you can also consider the following projects:

OberonSystem - Modified version of the original from http://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE

OfrontPlus - Oberon family of languages to C translator for ARM, x64 and x86 architectures

oberon-compiler - N. Wirth's Project Oberon RISC compiler ported to Go.

A2OS - Unofficial mirror of the ETH A2 repository

oberon - Project Oberon RISC emulator in Go

Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger