Bluebottle OS
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Bluebottle is the next generation Native Oberon
, the Oberon operating system for bare PC hardware. It was developed at the ETH Zurich
. It is small and fast and supports multiprocessor computers. It is completely based on an upward-compatible dialect of the Oberon programming language
called Active Oberon
. Its user interface supports a "point-and-click
" metaphor
to execute commands from text, similar to clicking hyperlink
s in a browser. The interface is also a zooming user interface
and can be seen in the YouTube
external link below.
Native Oberon
Native Oberon or ETHNO, is the version of the Oberon operating system which runs on x86 PC hardware. It has minimal hardware requirements...
, the Oberon operating system for bare PC hardware. It was developed at the ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
. It is small and fast and supports multiprocessor computers. It is completely based on an upward-compatible dialect of the Oberon programming language
Oberon (programming language)
Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. It was developed as part of the implementation of the Oberon operating system...
called Active Oberon
Active Oberon
Active Oberon is an extension of the programming language Oberon. Compared to its predecessors, Oberon and Oberon-2, it adds objects , system-guarded assertions, preemptive priority scheduling and a slightly changed syntax for methods...
. Its user interface supports a "point-and-click
Point-and-click
Point-and-click is the action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen and then pressing a mouse button, usually the left button , or other pointing device...
" metaphor
Interface metaphor
An Interface metaphor is a set of user interface visuals, actions and procedures that exploit specific knowledge that users already have of other domains. The purpose of the interface metaphor is to give the user instantaneous knowledge about how to interact with the user interface...
to execute commands from text, similar to clicking hyperlink
Hyperlink
In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks...
s in a browser. The interface is also a zooming user interface
Zooming User Interface
In computing, a zooming user interface or zoomable user interface is a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more detail or less, and browse through different documents. A ZUI is a type of graphical user interface...
and can be seen in the YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
external link below.