Oberon and the OberonStation (retro-style FPGA computing)

On 24 November 2015 at 07:45, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote: 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 >> >> | | >> | | | | | | >> | OberonStation - The Oberon computing platform/*{{{*/* html .tiddler > {height:1%;}body {font-size:.75em; font-family:arial,helvetica; margin:0; > padding:0;}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {font-weight:bold; | >> | | >> | View on oberonstation.x10.mx | Preview by Yahoo | >> | | >> | |