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14 Jun 2003: The release 1.02 alpha of the ETH Win Aos Oberon System is delivered by Felix Friedrich - friedrich at gsf.de. All recent bugfixes are included. An installer including AntsInFields is also available.
13 Jun 2003: The Oberon mailing list and Oberon web admin addresses are not working at the moment due to a mail server problem. Our IT support group has been informed.
5 Jun 2003: A new Bluebottle build of June 4, 2003 is available.
30 May 2003: The release 1.01 alpha of the ETH Win Aos Oberon System is delivered by Felix Friedrich. An installer including AntsInFields is also available.
23 May 2003: The first alpha release of the ETH Win Aos Oberon System is delivered by Felix Friedrich, the author of AntsInFields. Many thanks to him!
16 May 2003: Thanks to the initiative of Philipp Heuberger - Philipp.Heuberger at swissonline.ch - the 3rd Oberon Evening will take place on Monday 16th of June 2003 in Winterthur.
3 Feb 2003: Last Call For Papers for the JMLC 2003, August 25-27, 2003 Key dates:
o February 9, 2003: Final date for submissions -- extended up to February 16
o April 30, 2003: Notification of acceptance
o July 15, 2003: Early registration deadline
29 Jan 2003: Bluebottle build of January 29, 2003 available.
23 Jan 2003: Günter Feldmann has updated the Darwin port of ETH Oberon (2.3.8a) to work on Darwin 6.2 (Mac OS X 10.2).
14 Jan 2003: Stay on alert and follow the evolution of Bluebottle which was updated on Jan. 3 and Jan. 14, and which is performing noticeably faster.
10 Jan 2003: Prof. Dr. Laszlo Böszörmenyi, University Klagenfurt, Austria, issues a Second Call for Papers for the JMLC 2003, August 25-27, 2003 - See news dated 28 Oct 2002. Online submission site is open.
Key dates:
o February 9, 2003: Final date for submissions
o April 30, 2003: Notification of acceptance
o July 15, 2003: Early registration deadline
8 Jan 2003: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon (now 2.3.8a).
1 Jan 2003: Happy New Year! A new "snapshot" release of Bluebottle is made available. As "snapshot" suggests, this Bluebottle Dec 31, 2002 build is destined to show how work is progressing in the ETH Oberon group and for experimenting at one's own risk.
25 Nov 2002: The Oberon for .net home page goes online.
28 Oct 2002: Prof. Dr. Laszlo Böszörmenyi, University Klagenfurt, Austria, issues a Call for Papers for the 6th Joint Modular Languages Conference (JMLC 2003), Klagenfurt, August 25-27, 2003 and for the 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2003), Klagenfurt, 26 - 29 August, 2003.
Key dates:
o February 9, 2003: Final date for submissions
o April 30, 2003: Notification of acceptance
o July 15, 2003: Early registration deadline
25 Oct 2002: Günter Feldmann has released version 1.4 of Secure Shell client for Oberon.
2 Oct 2002: Felix Friedrich has released the first public version a1.01 of AntsInFields for simulation and statistical inference on Gibbs fields.
25 Sep 2002: Günter Feldmann has released version 1.3 of Secure Shell client for Oberon.
19 Sep 2002: Günter Feldmann has released version 1.2 of Secure Shell client for Oberon.
26 Aug 2002: An updated Native Oberon alpha version is now available at: ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/Update/Alpha/. Detailed changes listed at: http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/native/WebAlpha.html
22 Aug 2002: The transcription of a talk given by Niklaus Wirth about Pascal and its successors is published in the book Software Pioneers - Contributions to Software Engineering edited by M. Broy and E. Denert (Herausgeber). ISBN: 3-540-43081-4. Order from Amazon.
13 Aug 2002: Felix Friedrich - friedrich at gsf.de - developed the software package AntsInFields for simulation and statistical inference on Gibbs fields. It uses the package Voyager carried out by StatLab Heidelberg and launched by Günther Sawitzki. AntsInFields will appear on a CD-ROM included in a forthcoming book Image Analysis, Random Fields and Dynamic Monte Carlo Methods written by Prof. G. Winkler. More about AntsInFields and Voyager in the snapshot.
13 Aug 2002: Günther Sawitzki - gs@statlab.uni-heidelberg.de - updated the package Voyager (Beta 1). Voyager is found in the Oberon Software Repository and the new version appears among the downloadable contributions.
13 Aug 2002: Jacques Eloff has updated the built-in assembler documentation at http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/courses/pregrad/rw252/op2_asm.html . A link to this document is found in the Oberon Compilers and Language reference material document.
15 Jul 2002: Günter Feldmann has released version 1.0 of Secure Shell client for Oberon.
15 Jul 2002: Gérard Meunier has released a new version of his compiler compiler Babel and related tools.
4 Jul 2002: The native-oberon, oberon-developers and oberon-news mailing lists are now closed. To discuss ETH Oberon, please subscribe to the new Oberon mailing list. The new address for the Oberon webmaster is oberon-web at inf.ethz.ch.
2 Jul 2002: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon (now 2.3.8).
28 Jun 2002: The ftp.inf.ethz.ch "421 Service not available" login problem affecting some clients has been fixed.
27 Jun 2002: Important! The native-oberon mailing list is being replaced by the new Oberon mailing list (use this link to subscribe). The native-oberon, oberon-developers and oberon-news lists will be discontinued next week. The reason for the change is that we are switching to improved mailing list software and consolidating the lists.
21 Jun 2002: After a long pause, the Native Oberon alpha version was updated again.
16 Jun 2002: Günter Feldmann has released a beta version of secure shell for Oberon.
24 May 2002: The Bluebottle operating system based on the AOS kernel is released and is available for downloading from there.
As the word "AOS" is a bit overloaded in the operating systems world, the ETH operating system, known until now as "Aos", was renamed to "Bluebottle". Thanks to Thomas Frey and Bernhard Egger for putting this together.
For Bluebottle discussion, please use the native-oberon mailing list. To subscribe, send a "subscribe native-oberon Firstname Lastname" mail to listproc at inf.ethz.ch.
7 Apr 2002: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon (now 2.3.7d).
6 Mar 2002: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon.
15 Feb 2002: Günter Feldmann has added a Mac OS X (Darwin) port of ETH Oberon.
27 Jan 2002: Peter Matthias has updated Linux Native Oberon to the latest Native Oberon alpha state.
8 Jan 2002: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon.
26 Sep 2001: Fixed *.Dsk files in Native/Update/Alpha, Native/Update/CD and Native/Dummies directories on ftp.inf.ethz.ch.
24 Sep 2001: Enigon Software's press web site is now running on Bluebottle (formerly Aos).
6 Sep 2001: Native Oberon distribution "for Dummies" updated.
20 Aug 2001: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon.
6 Aug 2001: Günter Sawitzki updated the beta version of MacOberon.
11 Jul 2001: John Drake has made a version of PacMan for ETH Oberon.
25 May 2001: Günter Feldmann has updated the Unix versions of ETH Oberon.
21 May 2001: If you are interested in a reprint of the "Project Oberon" book by Wirth and Gutknecht, please send a mail to Erik at recon@dds.nl. He has started an initiative on comp.lang.oberon to collect a list of people interested in a reprint or online edition.
16 May 2001: Native Oberon distribution "for Dummies" updated. Execute OberonInstaller.exe under Windows to install Native Oberon in a FAT partition and create a boot diskette. Detailed information.
30 Mar 2001: The ETH Technical Report 125 - OP2: A Portable Oberon Compiler, by R. Crelier is now available as pdf.
5 Jan 2001: Native Oberon distribution "for Dummies".
11 Dec 2000: New WebNavigator beta version from Günter Feldmann.
8 Dec 2000: New beta001208 (ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/Update/ - removed now) release of PC Native Oberon. Big FAT16 file installation possible again, without using extend.exe (FAT32 coming soon). Better two-button mouse support (double-left executes commands). USB support.
7 Dec 2000: Peter Matthias updated Linux-based Native Oberon. fbdev support improved.
28 Nov 2000: Günter Feldmann added networking support to the WebNavigator beta version.
23 Oct 2000: Christian Plattner demonstrated USB support for Native Oberon. This will make its way to the next beta release.
27 Sep 2000: Peter Matthias updated Linux-based Native Oberon. Error when generating new disk file fixed, and LinuxFS support improved.
21 Aug 2000: Peter Matthias updated Linux-based Native Oberon. Major changes are: LinuxDisks now supports partitions and files > 2Gb, a new trap handler and support for Kernel.Log.
31 Jul 2000: New beta000731 (ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/Update/ - removed now) release of PC Native Oberon.
11 Jul 2000: LNO install.txt fixed.
10 Jul 2000: Our web pages were given a late spring-cleaning.
29 May 2000: André Fischer's beta release documentation and faq updated.
26 May 2000: New beta000526 (ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/Update/ - removed now) release of PC Native Oberon.
25 May 2000: Günter Sawitzki updated MacOberon beta.
25 May 2000: WebNavigator beta updated.
22 May 2000: Peter Matthias updated Linux-based Native Oberon. It can now access Linux files directly.
12 May 2000: Erich Oswald released the incredibly powerful graphics editor Leonardo 2.00 and graphical description language Vinci 1.00 (ftp). Also required are the latest versions of his Gfx (ftp) and Images (ftp) libraries. For best results, use a Truecolor display driver supporting the TransferBlock procedure. All the components are included in the release now.
10 May 2000: Günter Feldmann updated the SPARC Solaris version of Oberon.
25 Apr 2000: New beta000425 (ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/Update/ - removed now) release of PC Native Oberon.
28 Mar 2000: The Oberon Utility Disk is ideal for diagnosing hardware problems with PCs. Simply install the util.dsk image file on a diskette using rawrite.exe, boot from the diskette and you have a small RAM disk-based Oberon system which can scan the PCI bus and read partition tables from ATA/ATAPI, Adaptec 7xxx SCSI and NCR 810 SCSI devices. More information.
20 Mar 2000: Peter Matthias updated Linux-based Native Oberon. Support for X11 clipboard, XShm and the framebuffer device.
5 Mar 2000: Thomas Kistler reports Native Oberon running on the Transmeta TM5400.
29 Feb 2000: Tools contributed by G. Sawitzki.
28 Feb 2000: Test Coverage Analyser contributed by Willem Myburgh.
28 Feb 2000: Compiler information updated by Patrik Reali.
9 Feb 2000: Günter Feldmann updated the Intel x86 versions of Linux and Solaris Oberon, as well as the PowerPC Linux version.
31 Jan 2000: Jaco Geldenhuys'a Sepins game is now available.
25 Jan 2000: Peter Ryser's NE2000 network driver now available.
3 Jan 2000: New Oberon VNC page.
6 Dec 1999: The ELSA GLoria Synergy-8 ViVo card has been found to work well with the "3Dlabs Permedia 2" driver of Native Oberon. It also supports the soon to be released 3D graphics library of Fabian Kuhn.
23 Nov 1999: Erich Oswald updated the following packages: Images - a replacement for Pictures that supports truecolor images, format conversions, optimized palettes, dithering, compositing, extensible file formats, viewer gadgets and documents, and much more; Gfx and MetaFonts - a high-level graphics library; and OpenType - a TrueType interpreter for Oberon.
15 Nov 1999: Günter Feldmann updated the PowerPC version of Linux Oberon.
15 Nov 1999: A historical perspective on Oberon System 3 is provided by the second part of this document (ps / pdf / Text).
7 Nov 1999: Ben Smith-Mannschott released a set of screen savers for ETH Oberon. These are now included in the release.
3 Nov 1999: On-line version of the Oberon Language Report corrected. It is now the same as the printed version.
18 Oct 1999: SharkOberon installed in ETH HG E27, for use in Informatik 1 teaching. SharkOberon is a version of Native Oberon running on the DEC Shark Network Computer using a StrongARM SA110 processor.
8 Oct 1999: André Fischer's installation guide for the next release updated (HTML / ASCII / Text).
1 Sep 1999: A description of the Oberon X extensions (e.g. operator overloading) in the Native Oberon compiler is available here (ps / pdf / Text).
1 Sep 1999: Oliver Joos implemented a network file system and installable file system framework, which is used on SharkOberon in the ETH student labs.
26 Aug 1999: Patrik Reali is updating the ATADisk driver for ATAPI devices. It can currently read zip disks.
17 Aug 1999: The submission form on the Registry page has been fixed.
17 Aug 1999: Koen Desaeger's "Programmers extensions for ET" editor contribution is now available.
2 Jun 1999: Alan Freed's Computational Analysis Tools (Cat) library updated to version 1.1. ftp. To compile the Cat library, also install the compiler patch on release 2.3.6.
10 May 1999: Details of the Oberon evening.
9 Apr 1999: OberonTeX beta release now available. OberonTeX home page. Thanks to Edward Muller and Alan Freed for putting this together.