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> Oberon etc were not in reach for the average Joe, the tooling was too expensive and the cheap, resource constrained PCs couldn't run it. I'm sorry, but that'
by microtherion 8y ago
> Oberon etc were not in reach for the average Joe, the tooling was too expensive and the cheap, resource constrained PCs couldn't run it.
I'm sorry, but that's just nonsense. You can argue lack of documentation and user community, but Oberon is about as resource economic as it gets, and was originally designed for mid-80s hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(workstation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(workstation)
- hyperman1 8y agoAnd where was the oberon tooling for x86 dos or win98. Im not saying it was impossible to create, but nobody seems to have cared enought to do it, to get it in the hands of the user at an affordable price
- pjmlp 8y agoIt was available for free on Linux, SunOS, Windows, with the source code documented on the "Project Oberon" book, affordable enough for you?
- hyperman1 8y agoIt's a good start but: * It wasnt very visible in the ICT media. Sun did a full steam ahead Java Campaign * Open source at the time was not seen as trustworthy. I did run Linux at the time. SO did you, probably. Corporations would not touch it with a 10 feet pole. I presume oberon was seen in the same light.