Project Oberon

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:51:50 +0200

Hi Ronald,

I received yesterday my copy of Project Oberon directly from
ACM Press without any hassles. I ordered it on Sep/13. They
still seem to have some in stock.

I also contacted a lady at the ACM permissions department
(see her reply including my mail below ) and she forwarded
it to the responsible guy at ACM press. I think it is
important to contact ACM about the Oberon series and
not Addison Wesley. AW they made the production, but
since AW has been sold twice (AFAIK, first AW -> AWL -> now
Pearson), I guess that they got reorganized/restructured
and they don't think about contents but only sales.

Regards

-- 
    Bernhard Treutwein             Tel. +49-89-5996-642, Fax -615
    Institut f. Med. Psychologie  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
    bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy    --------------------------------  ---------------------------
    C is its own virus
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> From cotton{([at]})nowhere.xy[...]
> From: Deborah Cotton <cotton{([at]})nowhere.xy> To: "'bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy> 	 <bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy> Cc: Jono Hardjowirogo <jono{([at]})nowhere.xy> 	 <cotton{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: RE: The Oberon Series 
[...]
> 
> Hello Prof. Treutwein,
> 
> Thanks for the compliment, but I'm forwarding this to Jono 
> Hardjowirogo, ACM Press Books publisher, as this question 
> is beyond my scope.  I was not aware that ACM Press had 
> discontinued the Oberon series, but perhaps he can give details 
> regarding the decision or refer you to the proper authority in
> this case.  Good luck.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Deborah
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy> > Sent:	Tuesday, September 21, 1999 3:50 AM
> > To:	cotton{([at]})nowhere.xy> > Subject:	The Oberon Series 
> > 
> > Dear Deborah Cotton,
> > 
> > sorry to contact you again, but since you were very cooperative in
> > my Copyright question about Reiser's Oberon System in April to June
> > this year, I hope that you can point me out, whome I should contact
> > with the following issue:
> > 
> > AWL has finally shut down the whole Oberon series:
> > 
> > [WiR92] N. Wirth and M. Reiser 
> >      Programming in Oberon - Steps Beyond Pascal and Modula 
> >      Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56543-9 
> > 
> > [Rei92] M. Reiser 
> >      The Oberon System; User Guide and Programmer's Manual 
> >      Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54422-9
> > 
> > [WiG92] N. Wirth and J. Gutknecht 
> >      Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System and Compiler 
> >      Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54428-8
> > 
> > [WiR94] N. Wirth and M. Reiser 
> >      Programmieren in Oberon - Das neue Pascal 
> >      Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 3-89319-657-9 - 
> >      Translated into German by J. Templ. 
> > 
> > Shortly after Wirth's retirement in April this year. I don't know if
> > this was done by AWL in arrangement with ACM, but I think this is
> > abashing (don't know if this is the correct english word, I'm not a
> > native speaker) since Wirth has done pioneering work, which was
> > accomplished by several organizations (see the inlcuded selected list 
> > of honors, taken from: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/):
> > 
> > 
> > Selected Honours
> > 
> >      ACM, A. M. Turing Award (1984) 
> >      IEEE Computer Society, Computer Pioneer Award (1988) 
> >      IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize 1988 (1989) 
> >      Member, Swiss Academy of Engineering, 1992 
> >      Foreign Associate, US Academy of Engieering, 1994 
> >      Orden Pour le merite, 1996. 
> >      Honorary Doctorates: 
> >           University of York, England, 1978 
> >           Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978 
> >           Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 1987 
> >           Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria, 1993 
> >           University of Novosibirsk, Russia, 1996 
> >           The Open University, England, 1997 
> >           University of Pretoria, South Africa, 1998
> > 
> > 
> > Now my question: Who is responsible at ACM for such a decision
> > (if the series was dropped by AWL in arrangement with ACM), or
> > how can this step be taken back, if it is in the interest of
> > ACM to keep this series.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your advise 
> > -- 
> >     Bernhard Treutwein             Tel. +49-89-5996-642, Fax -615
> >     Institut f. Med. Psychologie  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
> >     bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy> >     --------------------------------  ---------------------------
> >     C is its own virus
>

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