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Overview

Welcome to the ETH Oberon web site of the Computer Systems Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Oberon is the name of a modern integrated software environment. It is a single-user, multi-tasking system that runs on bare hardware or on top of a host operating system. Oberon is also the name of a programming language in the Pascal/Modula tradition. The Oberon project was launched in 1985 by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht. Although the project was originally targeted towards in-house hardware, the language and system have now been ported to many computer platforms. Details in ETH Oberon Download Information.

The Oberon system is available free of charge and no registration is required for downloading the material. The source code is available under the following license agreement.

Latest News

8 Dec 2005: Prof. Niklaus Wirth delivers the electronic version of his classical book "Compiler Construction".
4 Aug 2005: Electronic versions of classical books "Programming in Oberon" and "Algorithms and Data Structures" by Niklaus Wirth are available in PDF form.
3 May 2005: Felix Friedrich delivers WinAos version 2.00a with a completely revised kernel, now available for download at http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/WinAos Bug reports, tips, hints and feedback to: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch or: friedrich at gsf.de
24 Dec 2004: The Bluebottle team has the pleasure to announce the publication of a very special Christmas version of Bluebottle. A snapshot was created for those who do not want to install it right away and as an incentive to have a try at it may be later, after all the upcoming festivities - as a cherry on the cake. Pass the word along!
All interested persons should address a warm thank you to Soren Renner who threw the snowball that unleashed among the team an avalanche of good ideas now playfully materialized.
21 Dec 2004: Prof. Niklaus Wirth delivers Part 4 of Programming in Oberon. Whereas Part 1 to 3 were derived from Programming in Modula-2, Part 4, entitled "Object-oriented Programming", is new.
24 Nov 2004: Günter Feldmann delivers a new release of the Unix ports of Oberon. The file is UnixOberon2.4.tar . Consult the readme text.
27 Oct 2004: Emil Zeller delivers Release 2.5 of WinOberon - 9 MB zip file. A fix must also be installed to correct the behaviour of Grow and Copy commands at the top of viewers.
1 Oct 2004: Prof. Niklaus Wirth delivers Programming in Oberon, a derivative of Programming in Modula-2 (1982) adapted to the Oberon language.
7 Jul 2004: Details of the upcoming International Oberon Meeting 2004 - Location, date, program, flyer, contact for participation.
21 May 2004: The annual Oberon meeting will take place in Basel on Friday July 23, 2004. An official invitation with a preliminary programme will follow.
21 May 2004: The Current Bluebottle Build was made available on March 12, 2004. The Crazy-Fresh Bluebottle Build is updated frequently as development progresses.
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