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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 | > > | | > > | | > > > > > > > > >
