Oberon and the OberonStation (retro-style FPGA computing)

[Mark Wickens]

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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