Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)

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spijdar today at 4:27 PM
Oh, this is something I'm going to have to try. Excellent work!

I have to ask, since people who'd know will probably be here, what's the "ten thousand foot view" of Oberon today? I'm aware of the lineage from Pascal/Modula, and that it was a full OS written entirely in Oberon, sort of akin to a Smalltalk or Lisp machine image. What confuses me is the later work on Oberon seems to be something of a cross between a managed runtime like Java or dot net, and the Inferno OS, where it can both run hosted or "natively". Whenever I've skimmed the wikipedia or web pages I've been a bit confused.

dharmatech today at 5:47 PM
The Oberon user interface inspired Acme on Plan 9.

Oberon is a very nice, fun and cozy system and environment for programming. I lived in it for a few months back around 2010 and it was a joy.

rcarmo today at 8:10 PM
This is lovely. And I bet it is very fast on that hardware, all things considered.
eterps today at 2:00 PM
This is great! I remember running System 3 on a 386 back when MS-DOS was king.
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ike____________ today at 4:05 PM
Thank you, I've never heard of the Oberon os before.
tomcam today at 3:55 PM
So good to see Oberon this accessible! Mad props!
alterom today at 5:34 PM
I still hope to see the world where Oberon is the future (and present) of OS and programming language design, and I know very little about it.

Thanks to your work, that's about to change.

Thank you times a thousand <3

zephyrwhimsy today at 3:52 PM
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