It is provided as a user convenience for storing temporary data that will be purged when Oberon is terminated.
NatFS - the PC Native Oberon FS used in earlier releases the last one was release 2.3.6.AosFS - the (new) FS of the alpha / beta version of Oberon.The supported file systems are listed in the OFS.Alias section of Oberon.Text. With its new generic file system support, an active Oberon has access to the data of co-resident partitions hosting a supported file system (FS).
All the devices will show up under the generic name "Disk" in displayed information as in this short example:ĭisk: IDE0, 8063MB = 16514064 * 512, CHS: 16383*16*63, Maxtor 90845D4, mntcnt=1 Oberon can produce ample information on all the existing partitions and free space in a computer system.
Most mass storage devices may host more than one partition, ZIP disks in principle too, but not diskettes. This does not apply to ZIP drives attached to the parallel port. The new partition management applies to all kinds of mass storage devices: hard disks, storage devices with removable media like diskettes, ZIP disks and CD-ROMs, etc.
This version of ETH Native Oberon introduces a new file system concept, a new generic driver concept, a number of new features and numerous improvements and corrections of the previous release. To find out whether your machine can host Native Oberon or not, consult the Hardware Compatibility List. If you have further questions, read the FAQ dedicated to this alpha/beta version. If you have other Oberon partitions (type 76) on your machine, with an installed Oberon OS, look for the date in Kernel.Obj. Note 2: To determine which version you are currently using, look at the date on the second line in the log, just after booting your system.
Readers using the beta version will notice a few major differences but will also get a preview of what the alpha version will bring, if they are tempted to upgrade from their current beta to alpha. This document places the accent on the alpha version, while the beta version specialities are relegated in separate sections. The respective Beta version and Alpha version change logs contain detailed chronological accounts of the modifications made up-to-now. In addition, an alpha version, including several changes and extensions, was made available on and is being updated regularly since then. Note 1: The first beta version appeared on and was updated on, and finally on. The installation procedure makes use of only a small subset of all what is presented here. Many of the Oberon commands presented are effectively used during an Oberon installation but it is by no means indispensable to master the entire instrumentation to conduct a successful installation. The installation procedure consists of a few interaction steps after booting the Oberon-0 boot diskette and need not be described in more details here. The objective is to detail some of the important issues which can contribute to overcome possible installation problems encountered by new users and to explain how this operating system can coexist with other OSs.
This document is being revised as new versions of the PC Native Oberon system are being produced.