Oberon Operating System

When people ask "how would you write an operating system without C?", Oberon is what I point them to. It's a very different style than Unix, in that the Oberon language is a relatively integrated part of the operating system, rather than communication being through a machine-level ABI. There were some spiritual predecessors where the compiler itself was part of the OS, and there was no other way to communicate with it than through the language semantics. I'm not completely…

Anyone that likes Wirth line of OS's and languages should check out the Modula-2 revision: http://modula-2.info/m2r10/pmwiki.php/Project/FAQ FAQ asks good questions and with rational answers. I'm still going to fight them on uppercase just for sake of adoption and saving pinky fingers. Otherwise, Modula-2 makes a nice C replacement and a start on safer C++ alternative that's easy to grok. The language was originally used in Wirth's and Jurg's first homebrew system, Lilith. I have a link to that and many…

I learnt about this project with the recent disappearance of one of its creator, Nikaus Wirth. What I found interesting, among other things, is the Text User Interface at the core of the OS. With the rise of ChatGPT and conversational search, I thought it may be useful to revisit such projects in the light of this new era of text and conversations first.