Re: Wow...

[Stewart Greenhill <greenhil@murdoch.edu.au>]

At 01:59 PM 10/3/99 +0100, Marco Oetken wrote:

>I have had a look at Mac-06, a POSIX-compatible
>operating system. It is build on the MAC OS and
>(as far as I remember) allows using MAC OS-Routines
>too. I haven't tried it very long, because it
>provides only a few programmes and a shell with
>MS-DOS editing comfort (no history, no completion...).
>But I think it is worth to have a look at it, because
>porting to Mac-06 may be easier and provide an
>intermediate step.

The Cygnus environment offers a similar sort of possibility under Windows.
OO2C already runs using the cygwin libraries. Cygwin emulates unix
functionality on top of Win32. However, the existing compiler could be used
to generate a new Win32-only run-time library. The new modules could be
written in Oberon-2 rather than C, which might make the coding a bit
simpler. Such a run-time system would be more portable to other Windows C
compilers (eg. Visual C, Borland C, gcc/mingw32 etc).

- Stewart