shaping at bigfoot.com wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dwight Hughes <dwighth at ipa.net>
> > Have you taken a look at the Oberon System 3 UI?
> I think I looked at Oberon 2 a couple of years ago, but I did not stick with
> it long enough to become fluent, although I could see much attention had
> been given to minimize movement.
> 
> Is the Oberon 3 UI significantly different?

Hard to say what you actually used. There are some other systems (free and
commercial) based on the Oberon-2 _language_ that have fairly conventional
UIs. Oberon System 3 originated with the original dedicated Oberon
workstations and retains most of the original ideas, concepts, and design.
[For maximal confusion, there is also an Oberon V4 system, which is still
another sort of beast -- Oberon System 3 is the current actively developed
system by ETH Zurich.]

The contrasts and similarities between Squeak and Oberon System 3 are most
interesting. The basic philosophies of language and system design could
hardly be further apart (except for the desire to maximize simplicity and
generality), but the end results are surprisingly alike.

-- Dwight