Oberon and the OberonStation (retro-style FPGA computing)

[Mark Wickens]

In answer to Kurts question - the link with boards to purchase is here:
http://oberonstation.x10.mx/

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.
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> On 24 November 2015 at 04:26, Kurt K <kurtk7 at visi.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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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