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<!I7                       Oberon System V4 for Amiga
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<!I1VERSION

    1.4

<!I1AUTHOR

    Stefan Ludwig, Claudio Nieder, Oliver Joos, Ralf Degner

    E-Mail: ludwig@inf.ethz.ch, degner@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de

    S-Mail: Stefan Ludwig
            Institut fuer Computersysteme
            ETH-Zentrum
            CH-8092 Zuerich

<!I1DESCRIPTION

    Oberon System V4 for Amiga (O4A) is a full implementation of
    ETH Zurich's Oberon System V4.

    Oberon is both a programming language and an operating system
    developed by Prof. N. Wirth and Prof. J. Gutknecht.

    The Oberon System in key words:
     - Single-process multitasking
     - Garbage collector - memory will be released automatically if
       not needed anymore
     - Commandos: procedures that can be called like programs
     - Dynamic loading: modules are loaded and linked to the system
       during run-time (if necessary)
     - Text as a built-in abstract data type (for example a
       Minesweeper game as a letter (like OLE and OpenDOC))
     - Graphical user interface

    A special advantage is the very high compatibility of the systems
    between implementations on different computers. System V4
    implementations exist for Amiga, Mac, Power Mac, Windows (NT),
    Linux, IBM-RS6000, Sun-Sparc, HP-Workstations, NeXt, ...
    You can use a program written on one implementation on any other
    without change.

    O4A is a full implementation of the Oberon System V4 with all
    usual programs. The system runs in its own task and therefore you
    can use O4A and the Amiga OS at the same time. Specific features
    of the Amiga implementation are its incremental heap allocation,
    support of the Amiga clipboard and the capability of accessing
    IFF files.

    The O4A package contains:
     - A full Oberon-2 compiler
     - Development tools (Browser, Analyzer, Disassembler, ...)
     - XE, a comfortable 'editor' with layout functions
     - Kepler, an object-oriented 2D vector drawing program
     - Paint, a simple pixel-oriented paint program
     - A lot of additional tools (Draw, RX, AsciiCoder, ...)
     - Various text elements
     - VT100 terminal emulation
     - Games: Tetris and Minesweeper (with source)
     - Example sources and online documentation

    To get more information about the programming language and
    operating system Oberon have a look at the "Oberon and Amiga"
    WWW page: http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/~nhbidegn/oa-e.html
    There you will find links to other Oberon information resources.
 
<!I1NEW FEATURES

    - All interface modules rewritten
    - Amiga font support
    - Many small bugs fixed

<!I1SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

    - Amiga with OS2.0 or higher
    - at least an MC68020
    - a minimum of 1.5 MB free memory (2.5 MB recommended)
    - about 3 MB disk space
    - FPU for floating point calculations
      (without FPU Oberon-NonFPU.lha is required)

<!I1AVAILABILITY

    The Home of Oberon is the ETH Zurich. There you can find many
    Oberon System implementations, especially the Amiga version:

    ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/Amiga/V1.4/

    Oberon.lha (1.1 MB)        - main archive
    Oberon-NonFPU.lha (100 KB) - to use O4A without FPU
    Oberon-Src.lha (700 KB)    - the full source of O4A
    Oberon-Fonts.lha (390 KB)  - additional fonts
    Dialogs.lha (250kB)        - advanced GUI
    Expressions.lha (130kB)    - math expressions within text documents
    CoCo.lha (130kB)           - compiler generator

    It is available in the Aminet directory dev/obero, too.

<!I1PRICE

    It's free, but not PD.
    Please note the ReadMe file in every archive. 

<!I1DISTRIBUTABILITY

    Oberon System V4 for Amiga is (C)opyright 1990-97 by
    Claudio Nieder, Stefan Ludwig, Ralf Degner and
    the Institute for Computer Systems ETH Zurich.
    Some files in the archives are (C)opyright by other persons
    (fo example Dialogs and Expressions).

    All files in the archives are freeware. You can use it in any
    way you like but you must not include part of it in a
    commercial product.

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