I've been mildly interested in Oberon (the language) as of late after reading about Wirth's languages. I remember reading about Pascal and the Modula family some years ago, but always didn't know Oberon was his creation as well and thought it soubded like some weird esolang. I almost wrote a compiler for Oberon when I learned how simple the language is and I needed a compiler for an old architecture.
What were benefits or breakthroughs of the OS when it was created? I wish the 2013 book was available in a physical copy, I'm not a huge fan of PDFs.
... in the 80's, with a headcount of 2 (who had other academic duties).
> "The primary goal, to personally obtain first-hand experience, and to reach full understanding of every detail, inherently determined our manpower: two part-time programmers. We tentatively set our time-limit for completion to three years. As it later turned out, this had been a good estimate; programming was begun in early 1986, and a first version of the system was released in the fall of 1988."
I think of Wirth and Gutknecht as demonstrating that one need not be as far out as Terry A. Davis to do small-team end-to-end work. (compare Carver Mead's tall thin person)
What were benefits or breakthroughs of the OS when it was created? I wish the 2013 book was available in a physical copy, I'm not a huge fan of PDFs.