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 <m...@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 <kur...@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 <wmad...@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 | >> > | | >> > | | >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >
