The Oberon system is the latest offering from Niklaus Wirth, the guy who
designed Pascal and Modula 2. A bit weak on the documentation but fun to
play with.

This version may be freely distributed. See the caveats in README.TXT.

Please note that you must do some tweaking of your autoexec.bat and
config.sys files to get the system to run. The System.exe archive file
contains sample autoexec and config files that work.

Generally, I solve problems like this by keeping my various autoexec and
config versions in a subdirectory, each with it's own type extender
(AUTOEXEC.WIN and CONFIG.WIN for Windows; AUTOEXEC.VLA and CONFIG.VLA
for plain-vanilla DOS boots; AUTOEXEC.OBR and CONFIG.OBR for Oberon),
and place in the path a batch file, SETBOOT.BAT, that copies the
appropriate autoexec-config pair to the root directory:

                @echo off
                if !%1==! goto oops
                copy c:\bootfils\autoexec.%1 c:\autoexec.bat
                copy c:\bootfils\config.%1 c:\config.sys
                goto ciao
                :oops
                echo Usage SETBOOT type
                echo Example: SETBOOT WIN
                :ciao

Invoke the batch file with the appropriate type.

I downloaded the files via anonymous ftp on the Internet from Wirth's
Institute.

Byte had an article on the language/operating system in May 1993.

Enjoy!

Tim Bovee
Herndon, Va.

tbovee@holonet.net
