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Yes, Cedar was impressive, like the adult version of the Oberon system. I wonder if the source code of the Cedar environment is available somewhere. There is an
by Rochus 4y ago
Yes, Cedar was impressive, like the adult version of the Oberon system. I wonder if the source code of the Cedar environment is available somewhere. There is an interesting report by Atkinson (and Jacobi, who is on the panel in the posted video) where they migrated the environment to Unix using C as an intermediate layer. This is apparently the version used for the demonstration. But I couldn't yet find this source code anywhere. Maybe someone has a link.
- pjmlp 4y agoSome of the Xerox PARC digital archives have printouts from Cedar, including the bytecode and microcoded CPU instructions, now if everything is there, no idea.
- pmcjones 4y agoThat version of the Cedar source was on a CD-ROM accompanying the blue-and-white version of this SOSP'93 paper: Carl Hauser, Christian Jacobi, Marvin Theimer, Brent Welch, and Mark Weiser. 1993. Using threads in interactive systems: a case study. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 27, 5 (Dec. 1993), 94–105. https://doi.org/10.1145/173668.168627 https://doi.org/10.1145/173668.168627
- Rochus 4y agoThanks for the hint. It seems the additional data is not available from the ACM site. Was really the source code of the whole environment including the Mimosa compiler on the CD? Do you know anyone who has access to it? I might be interested (if feasible) to migrate and run it on contemporary operating systems.