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ETH Oberon Download Information
ETH Oberon can be installed on various platforms, either as a native operating system or on top of the operating system of the hosting machine. Until approximately 2019 it was available with source code from the central repository at ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/ETHOberon/ located at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland and from a number of mirror sites. Each sub-directory listed contains an introductory text (usually named "readme.txt") with installation directions. The delivered compiler varies depending on the implementation.
+ OS ETH Oberon Port Download Maintainer Port Notes Native Native Oberon Native/StdAlone/ Pieter Muller "Official", stable Native/Update/Beta/, release 2.3.6 Beta test Native/Update/Alpha/, release 2.3.7 Latest build - "bleeding edge" Native Oberon "for Dummies" Native/Update/Dummies/ Installation via Windows Linux Linux Native Oberon (LNO) Native/LinuxBased/ Peter Matthias Native Oberon emulator on Linux Oberon for Linux x86 Unix/x86.Linux/ Günter Feldmann Tracks Native Oberon closely.Differences from Native Oberon.Originals at the University of Bremen Oberon for Linux PPC Unix/ppc.Linux/ Solaris Oberon for Solaris x86 Unix/x86.Solaris/ ETH Oberon System release 2.4 for Solaris SPARC Unix/sparc.Solaris/ MacOs X ETH Oberon System release 2.3.8 for MacOS X/Darwin Unix/ppc.Darwin51/ Oberon for MacOs X 10.2 Unix/ppc.Darwin62/ Windows ETH PlugIn Oberon for Windows 9x / ME / NT / 2000 Win95NT/PlugIn/ Emil Zeller Integrates Oberon with Windows, Netscape and ActiveX Bluebottle Oberon for Bluebottle Bluebottle [= A2] Pieter Muller Included on Bluebottle CD image
Note: Apple changed the kernel interface for signal delivery. It was not possible to build an Oberon core which could run on top of both Darwin releases. The Darwin 5.1 port will not be updated in future Unix Oberon releases. blue Details.
Former mirror sites
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Sinica, Taiwan (sinica.edu.tw)
Washington University, USA
Oberon ports no longer updated
+ OS ETH Oberon Port Download Last maintainer Port Notes Native SharkOberon for DNARD SharkOberon Bernhard Egger SharkOberon is an implementation of Native Oberon System 3 Release 2.3 for the DEC DNARD Network Computer Dos-Based Native Oberon System3/Native/DosBased Pieter Muller Replaced by Native "for Dummies" Windows 3.x Oberon System 3 for Windows Windows 3.x Ex ETHZ Oberon FTP or Spirit of Oberon Windows NT, 95 Oberon for Windows Win95NT/Old/ Emil Zeller Replaced by PlugIn Oberon MacOs MacOberon System 3 Oberon System 3 Release 2.3 for Macintosh Michael Franz/Thomas Kistler Replaced by Beta test next line MacOs MacOberon ETH Oberon (MacOberon) beta version. 06.08.2001 Günter Sawitzki Beta test - Replaced by MacOs X HP-UX Oberon System 3 for HP-UX HPUX Oberon Edgar Schwarz Basic port of System3 2.2 to HPUX
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