Chameleon (computing)
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Chameleon is a computer workstation design produced at ETH
Zurich
running the Oberon operating system
.
It was also the name of an older luggable computer from the early 1980s, distinguished by being able to run both the MS-DOS
and CP/M-80 operating systems.
Eth
Eth is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese , and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. The capital eth resembles a D with a line through the vertical stroke...
Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
running the Oberon operating system
Oberon operating system
Oberon is an operating system developed in the late 1980s at ETH Zürich using the Oberon programming language. It has an innovative visual text-based user interface for activating commands.- History :...
.
It was also the name of an older luggable computer from the early 1980s, distinguished by being able to run both the MS-DOS
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
and CP/M-80 operating systems.