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| Developer | Niklaus Wirth Jürg Gutknecht |
|---|---|
| Written in | Oberon |
| OS family | Oberon |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 1987[1] |
| Available in | English |
| Platforms | Ceres (NS32032), IA-32, Xilinx Spartan, and many others |
| Kernel type | Object-oriented |
| Default user interface | Text-based user interface |
| License | BSD-style[2] |
| Preceded by | Medos-2 |
| Official website | www |
The Oberon System[3] is a modular, single-user, single-process, multitasking operating system written in the programming language Oberon.[4] It was originally developed in the late 1980s at ETH Zurich. The Oberon System has an unconventional visual text user interface (TUI) instead of a conventional command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI). This TUI was very innovative in its time and influenced the design of the Acme text editor for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system.
The system also evolved into the multi-process, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capable A2 (formerly Active Object System (AOS),[5] then Bluebottle), with a zooming user interface (ZUI).
- ^ Kulka, Irena. "Oberon: Welcome to Oberon". ETH. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- ^ ETH-License
- ^ Wirth, Niklaus; Gutknecht, Jürg (1988). The Oberon System: Report Number 88 (PDF) (Report).
- ^ Wirth, Niklaus: The Programming Language Oberon. Software - Practice and Experience, 18:7, 671-690, Jul. 1988
- ^ Muller, Pieter Johannes (2002). The active object system design and multiprocessor implementation (PDF) (PhD). Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH Zurich).