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How’s the network programming and ssl story in oberon (os)? And multiprocessor/multithreading? As an os, Oberon could be a cool alternative. One wonders if inte
by marktangotango 9y ago
How’s the network programming and ssl story in oberon (os)? And multiprocessor/multithreading? As an os, Oberon could be a cool alternative. One wonders if intel considered it for ME in place of minix.
- pjmlp 9y agoThe Native Oberon and EthOS versions used cooperative multitasking. Bluebottle OS, which introduced the variant known as Active Oberon, made use of multithreading in form of active objects, a concept similar to goroutines. Its compiler Paco, is one of the first multithreaded compilers I know of. SSL was not yet a thing when Oberon was popular in the mid-90's, so I don't remember if the browser of the time supported it. Network programming was a mix of Ethernet and Oberon own protocols, there was support for network printing and file shares. All books that Wirth wrote about Oberon were written using the text editors of the OS.