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skulski@fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu wrote:

>
> OK, then what about this: the first step in marketing should be to stop
> making mistakes. Why is System-3 still not available for SGI, RS6000, etc?
> Why are V4 and S3 still not merged into System-5 ? Why did you lose the
> best selling point, which was portability of Oberon programs across
> so many platforms: Unix, Amiga, Mac and PC ? 

Three questions, all have the same answers:

First because S3 is not released in source code! This makes V4 interesting for
people who shouldn't use it ( implementors of systems). V4 and S3 are so
close, that it even wouldn't be worth renaming System 3 when including and
porting V4 stuff.  ( not necessarily to Gadgets, which can sometimes be
difficult to program). This, of course, will not happen until S3's source will
be made avaiable...

And second, it is ETH politics to release V4 with the Oberon-2 compiler and to
NOT release S3 with the Oberon-2 compiler. So they can't merge them. 

But consider that even today S3 has four more ore less incompatible editors (
Edit, ET, Script and TextGadgets). Together with Write, you would have five!
Personally i hope that System-5 will someday become a more object oriented,
stripped down and cleaned up Gadgets system that runs on top of both, V4 and
S3.

Peter