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  • > The whole system runs on a low-cost development board (Xilinx Spartan-3 by Digilent, with 1 MB of static RAM)

    If somebody wants their FPGA work to be available, they better choose MiSTer FPGA from the beginning. Costlier, but way more likely to be found around.

    by OCTAGRAM
  • what does RISC-V instead of RISC-5 mean?
    by tosh
  • Would it be practical to have the ESP P4 self-host?
    by clbrmbr
  • I am currently exploring languages, operating systems.. my conclusions so far are that the two fish in the pond are plan9, and oberon. I am also aware of Geoff Collyers criticisms of RISC-V, and the criticisms of oberon of principia-softwarica. But that's about where my knowledge ends. I am also extremely suspicious of any project that makes any use of c++, being familiar with both the art of unix programming, and the attitudes of the suckless community.

    A brief glance at https://oberon-lang.github.io/2023/12/25/towards-concurrency... tells me that oberon+ supports parallelism, so I take that to mean that the criticisms in principia-softwarica no longer completely hold, at least for that new language.

    Something that really surprises me is, a project so closely connected to the simplicity and elegance of oberon, also connected to c++, a language so widely vilified for complexity and ugliness, and with which oberon itself, apparently, competes. I'm sure there must be really good reasons for all this.

    by mikethe
  • Love your commitment to this. You are doing excellent work to keep Wirth's computing spirit alive. Oberon's philosophy ( https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf ) is beautiful for the power it hides behind its simplicity and I wish it was a more popular language ...
    by thisislife2
  • Readers encountering this project for the first time should be aware that the earlier Oberon-on-RISC-V project <https://github.com/solbjorg/oberon-riscv> (HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497002>) exists and was already discussed on the mailing list:

    <https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2026/017161.html>

    by cxr

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