23 Nov
2015
23 Nov
'15
11:45 p.m.
Thanks for letting us know about this William - I'm sure there is still
plenty of interest in Oberon, Modula-2, Modula-3 and other derivatives.
On 24 November 2015 at 04:26, Kurt K <kurtk7 at visi.com> wrote:
Where did you order the Oberon Station. I didn't
see a link off the
project page.
On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:28 PM, William Maddox
<wmaddox at pacbell.net> wrote:
The revived 2013 re-issue of Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system is a joy to
behold.
If you've never heard of Oberon before, it is a minimalistic
education-oriented language and operating system designed after Wirth had
taken a (second) sabattical at PARC in the 80's.
The new version runs on a custom RISC processor, implemented in an FPGA,
instead
of the NS3032 in the orginal Ceres workstations. Originally, it
required a Digilent "Spartan 3 Starter Kit" with a custom-built
daughterboard providing a few additional connectors. This board is no
longer made, however, and no other FPGA development board appears to
provide the 32-bit wide fast SRAM the Oberon CPU required.
Recently, a new board, the OberonStation, has
come onto the market that
was designed specifically for Oberon, and will boot up
Oberon 2013 out of
the box. It also looks like an excellent platform for other retro-style
FPGA CPU designs that want to stay away from complex SDRAM controllers and
the caches they like to feed.
My OberonStation arrived a couple of days ago, and it's really amazing
to see
what can be done with a hardware and software stack that is small
enough to actually read and understand.
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/
http://www.projectoberon.com/
OberonStation - The Oberon computing platform
--Bill
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