July 2012 - Oberon - mailman3.inf.ethz.ch

multiple monitors connected to Oberon System?
by Frans-Pieter Vonck 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello Oberonners, is there anyone who tried to use two or more monitors on the oberon system ? I saw in the "Project Oberon"-book a picture of two monitors attached. Figure 4.13 Standard Oberon configuration featuring two logically adjacent displays of equal size and structure. However for the x86 architecture I did not find any examples. Maybe there is,somewhere in Zurich, a aos/bluebottle system connected to a video wall. Greets, Frans-Pieter

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Non-volatile memory; was Re (3): persistence-across-reboot;
by peasthope＠shaw.ca 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

From: knapjack at gmail.com (Jack Johnson) Date: Wed Apr 14 02:23:15 2010 > Yep, many Smalltalk implementations have an image file that holds the > state of all the objects in the system (code and data), and a virtual > machine that loads and saves the image file as the method of > persistence. ETHNO runs on my old Toshiba Satellite T2100, 80486, 8 MiB RAM. So non-volatile memory now available from Ramtron should be adequate. Each of these is 2 MiB. http://www.ramtron.com/products/nonvolatile-memory/serial-product.aspx?id=1… http://www.ramtron.com/products/nonvolatile-memory/serial-product.aspx?id=1… Interfacing 4 or 8 even 16 of them to a CPU must be possible. That would easily support ETHNO; possibly A2. Wear leveling is not involved. No boot loading; instant on. Filesystems needed only for access to large data sets, legacy data and data from external sources. Wouldn't be feasible for most conventional systems where nundreds of MiBs are used. But we are interested in efficiency rather than grandiosity. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary "

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A couple of questions
by Steve Adams 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

I have a project that I'm starting and was planning on using A2. My first question is, what is the best book for documenting the API? I've read "Project Oberon", and "The Oberon System", but was hoping that there was more current information. Specifically, I'm looking for information on loading and displaying JPEGs and PNGs. Second, I've noticed that the download site http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/download.html isn't reachable. Is there an alternate site for the bootable ISO image?

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