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 <wmad...@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/
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> http://www.projectoberon.com/
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> OberonStation - The Oberon computing platform
> --Bill
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