Oberon: The tiniest but richest FOSS HLL and OS you've never heard of

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  • a2

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

    "Bluebottle" is now called A2 and it's on Github now:

    https://github.com/btreut/a2

    I've done quite a bit of editing on the Wikipedia article, including bringing stuff across from Russian Wikipedia (via Google Translate).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_(operating_system)

    The most active user and development community for A2 seems to be in Russia. There's a Telegram group too but I don't speak the language so I can't follow very much of it at all.

  • A2OS

    Unofficial mirror of the ETH A2 repository

    Because of pjmlp's hint I just looked into the repositories https://github.com/btreut/a2 and https://github.com/metacore/A2OS, but didn't find a coroutines module. I'm aware that Active Oberon (Patrik Reali, 2004) includes concurrency, but this is a different language than the one used for System 3.

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  • TheOberonCompanionCD

    This is the original contents of the CD to the book "The Oberon Companion" (vdf, 1998)

    In case you're interested: I realized that I indeed already have System 3 binaries and source code in my collection; unfortunately the original links at ETH don't work anymore; but I have a physical copy of the book "The Oberon Companion" which includes a CD; I now have uploaded the CD contents to Github; here it is: https://github.com/OberonSystem3/TheOberonCompanionCD

  • oberon

    Project Oberon RISC emulator in Go (by fzipp)

  • oberon-compiler

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

  • 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

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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