Oberon/genealsys

#F0FFF0 This document was originally hosted at the ETHZ. It remains under the ETH license and is in the WayBack archive. ETH Oberon System Genealogy Tree   Note: Suggestions for corrections and hints for improvement are welcome. The dates are approximative. Genesis of the Oberon System and its ports   System name Target Machine Processor OS Milestone     Lilith (ETH)       1985 Oberon Ceres-1 (ETH) NS 32032   Fall: Oberon project start 1987         Mid-year: Draft Oberon version 1988 Oberon Wir88a, Wir88a Ceres-2 (ETH) NS 32532 Oberon (native) Mid-year: Oberon system introduced at the ETH 1989         Oberon in programming courses 1990 Oberon Ceres-3 (ETH) NS 32GX32   Portable compiler Cre90         System completion 1991 Spark-Oberon Tem90 SPARCstation (SUN) SPARC UNIX (SunOS) Oberon-2 MoW91a, MoW91b MacOberon Fra90a, Fra90b Macintosh II (Apple) MC68020 MacOS DEC-Oberon DECstation 3100 and 5000 (DEC) MIPS R2000 UNIX (Ultrix) RISC Oberon RS/6000 (IBM) RIOS UNIX (AIX) MS-DOS Oberon Dis93 Intel-based PC Intel MS DOS Chameleon Oberon HeP92 Chameleon (ETH) LSI LR33000 Oberon (native)         Oberon System 3 project start 1992         System books Rei92, WiG92 1993 HP-Oberon Sup94 HP 9000 Series 700 (HP) PA-RISC HP-UX Object model adopted Cre94, Cre95 Oberon for Windows Intel-based PC Intel MS Windows NT, 3.1 Genesis of the ETH Oberon (formerly System 3) and its ports   System name Target Machine Processor OS Milestone 1990         Gadgets Mar90, Mar91, Mar94b 1991 Oberon System 3 Ceres-2 (ETH) NS 32532 Oberon (native) Oberon System 3 project start 1992 Spirit of Oberon Intel-based PC Intel MS Windows 3.1 and 3.11 Followed Oberon System 3 for Windows 95/98/NT 1993 MacOberon Mac PowerPC 68k-based Mac   MacOS Fra93a 1994 Hybrid Oberon Intel-based PC Intel Hybrid Kernel Prototype of Native Oberon Native Oberon Intel-based PC Intel Native Oberon   1998 Oberon for Linux Intel-based PC Intel Linux Replaced by Linux-based Native Oberon Oberon Linux PPC Mac PowerPC 68k-based Mac   Linux PPC   SPARC SPARCstation (SUN) SPARC Solaris (SUN)   HPUX       Beta version Linux-based Oberon Intel-based PC Intel Linux   1999 SharkOberon DEC DNARD NC StrongARM Oberon (native)   Linux x86 Intel-based PC Intel Linux   Solaris x86 Intel-based PC Intel Solaris           Programming language project with Microsoft Research 2000         Renamed to "ETH Oberon" 10 Jul 2000 - Copyright © 2000 ETH Zürich. All rights reserved. E-Mail: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch Homepage: http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch