Overview

Oberon is a family of both programming languages and systems originally developed by the Native Systems Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. A Oberon system is typically tighly coupled with the Oberon programming language it supports and a compiler for that language.

Active Oberon System (AOS)

This is the most recent language/system of the Oberon family. Formerly called Bluebottle.

Kernel

• multiprocessor support
• preemptive multi-tasking
• automatic memory management (comprehensive marking stack garbage collector, stop & go)
• dynamically loadable modules

Active Oberon Language

• strong-typed
• object-oriented (single inheritance)
• integrated concurrency support (locking, synchronization, thread) through active objects

Parallel Compiler (PACO)

1-pass recursive descent, scope concurrent parser.

AOS has been ported to MS Windows (WinAOS).

ETH Oberon

• strong-typed
• type extension support

Kernel

• co-operative multi-tasking
• automatic memory management (pointer-rotation garbage collector, stop&go)
• dynamically loadable modules

Oberon Language

• strong-typed
• type extension

Oberon 2 Compiler (OP2)

1-pass recursive descent parser, generates intermediate parse tree.

For more details, see Oberon Website.