Peter wrote:

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What is the current status of Native Oberon?

Is it orphaned?

The absence of a reply is effectively an answer, yes.

Only lack of time prevents one of us from collecting improvements and building another alpha release. A few serious bugs, such as that in TCP/IP, remain unsolved and many new applications in Aos are not available in Oberon. With the very small user population, work on Oberon is a tough proposition.

When Aos first appeared viable for the public, Pieter Muller described the requirements to put it on an i386. Perhaps work in this direction is a better investment in the long term.

?! who makes i386 ? For low-power/portable, ARM seems the route. Who uses oberon on ARM ? Reportedly Wirth made his 'helicopter system' on ARM so I'd expect some support.

What is your objective?

Is Aos matured enough yet - how much can it do of: * dial-in, * email, * News, * get http, * wiz-bang text editing like n-o, * file/string/age search, * partitioned files-space to at least the granularity & convenience of n-o IDE partitoning, * view at least *.gif, *.jpg * normal utils: zip, *decode, ......etc. ? == Chris Glur.