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The Oberon OS is a unequaled pinnacle of user interface design, IMHO.

(In addition to the Oberon language, which is great (in context), and the internal organization of the Project Oberon OS in an education in itself. (Prof Wirth has kindly made the book into PDFs for distribution, available here: http://www.projectoberon.com/ This book is soooo good for computer system design).)




The best version of it is Oberon System 3 with its Gadgets framework.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&key...

Unfortunately the book describing how it worked for current generations is priced as collector item and very hard to get by.

There are however some working web sites still and the Citeseerx paper version that is related to the book edition.

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472...


This book is part of the Oberon Os. You can read it in its hypertexted form inside Oberon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NMJh0noDk&index=35&list=WL&t...


I did not mentioned it, because I don't expect anyone in 2018 to bother to try to install Oberon OS.

Thanks for point it out anyway.




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