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"... simple as possible, but no simpler." ... A. Einstein
"Oberon Computing" includes multiple aspects. For an overview, begin with the Wikipedia article. For authoritative documents see Bibliography. For other uses of the name Oberon, refer to the disambiguation page.
Table of contents
thumb|The Oberon subsystem in UnixAos on an XO-1.5.
Introduction
Audience
System Characteristics
Use Cases
Historical Perspective
Beginning as a Novice
Glossary
Text
Editing a Text
Programmatical Access to a Text
How Text Works ...
In V2
In ETH Oberon
In the Oberon Subsystem of A2
In V5
Text.FindPiece and the cache
Naming
Files, Servers and Viewers
Naming in A2
Context in General
System Variants
Source Texts in Oberon
Source Texts in Oberon-2
Source Texts in Active Oberon
Source Texts in Oberon-07
Licenses
ETH Oberon License
ETH Bluebottle/Aos/A2 License
Project Oberon, Revised Edition 2013
The Oberon System, V1 and V2
Text in V2
Sources in V2
ETH Oberon thumb|ETH Oberon on a Tatung TWN-5213 CU tablet.
Links
Installing
A Calendar and a Clock
Telnet Console
Email
News Reader
Text
Potential Developments
Module Sources
Texts
Tools
Linz Oberon, V4 thumb|Oberon V4 on an iMac M1.
Links
Installing
Configuring
Starting V4 on Linux
Usage Notes
Bug Fixes
Module Sources
A2 thumb|440px|Firefox and A2 with Weston and XWayland on a Debian 10 system with twin screens.
Links
Tested Instances
Installing and Running UnixAos
User and Machine Specific Configuration of UnixAos
The A2 Repositories
Compiling and Linking
Working Directory
Module Naming
User Level Applications
Text
Module Sources, Tools and Configuration Texts
Potential Developments
V5
Installing
Text
Notes
Sources
Bibliography
Booting
V2
ETH Oberon
V4
V5
Multi-booting
Multi-booting with MBR and BIOS
Multi-booting with UEFI
Comparing
Comparing Texts
Comparing Wikibook Pages
Computers
Contributing to this Wikibook
Formatting a Source Text
Styling a Source Text
FAQ
Collaboration and Support
Footnotes
Substantial content is present. Improvements remain possible and editing continues at a modest pace.
The Oberon programming language with multiple dialects, various Oberon operating systems, computing hardware where the operating systems have been used and the hardware description language, Lola-2, used to configure a FPGA.
An adapter is required to connect a conventional serial mouse to the Hirose 3540-16P-CV connector. Support for the touchscreen has yet to be implemented.
Open source software Operating systems
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