Episode 76 – 77 – 78: Oberon, Plan 9 and Inferno
It’s true. None of the Operating System’s I want to talk about today are what We would call UNIX or Linux like Operating Systems. They might have similarities and/or resemblance to UNIX like systems ( Plan9 was made in Bell Labs where UNIX was born and was indeed building on the UNIX Concepts ) but there is a clear connetion between these systems. They are not usual in any way 🙂 no , seriously they are influenced by one another ( or built upon the experience of one another) in order such as:
The Oberon System is a modular, single-user, single-process, multitasking operating system written in the programming language Oberon. It was originally developed in the late 1980s at ETH Zurich. The Oberon System has an unconventional visual text user interface (TUI) instead of a conventional command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI). This TUI was very innovative in its time and influenced the design of the Acme text editor for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system.
The latest version of the Oberon System, Project Oberon 2013, is still maintained by Niklaus Wirth and several collaborators, but older ETH versions of the system have been orphaned. The system also evolved into the multi-process, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capable A2 (formerly Active Object System (AOS),[5] then Bluebottle), with a zooming user interface (ZUI).
