Lukas Mathis personal blog
Oberon (2009)
Steven Frank's essay on the current state of the desktop UI 1 reminded me of Oberon, a delightfully insane system I used back when I was studying computer science at ETH Zürich. The first thing you have to understand about Oberon is that it evolved entirely outside of the normal genealogy of user interfaces…
- Points
- 225
- HN comments
- 263
- Submissions
- 4
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- 8 commenters
Software EngineeringHistory & Retro Computing2022
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2022 | Oberon (2009) by lproven | 225 | 143 |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009) by jaytaylor | 168 | 59 |
| May 4, 2009 | Oberon, a delightfully insane system by blasdel | 128 | 30 |
| Oct 5, 2013 | Oberon (2009) by olaf | 99 | 31 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 18 Hacker News comments by 8 different people, from Mar 2010 to Apr 2026.
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