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Adding concurrency to the Oberon system

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The Oberon system, developed by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht is unusual in that, although it has a “single process multitasking” window user interface, it does not support concurrent execution of programs. This approach yields a simple design and works surprisingly well, but it does have limitations of practical importance. In this report we describe a project, Concurrent Oberon, which introduces concurrency into the Oberon system while maintaining the simplicity and spirit of the original system.

Supported in part by Swiss National Science Foundation grant 21-25280-88.

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  1. Institut für Computersysteme, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) ETH Zentrum, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Spiros Lalis & Beverly A. Sanders

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Lalis, S., Sanders, B.A. (1994). Adding concurrency to the Oberon system. In: Gutknecht, J. (eds) Programming Languages and System Architectures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57840-4_40

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