Oberon System
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SHOW HN2026
121points
22comments
#546of 4,366 in 2026
Top 13%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Appreciation for keeping Wirth's computing spirit alive
From 1 comment
Love your commitment to this. You are doing excellent work to keep Wirth's computing spirit alive. Oberon's philosophy (…
thisislife2 on HN
Objections
Original RISC-5 FPGA board availability is poor; RISC-V emulator used for now
From 1 comment
The availability of the board to run Wirt's system was an issue pretty soon. There were even people who offered their own boards to fill the gap (e.g.…
Rochus on HN
Questions
Would it be practical to self-host on the ESP32-P4?
From 1 comment
Would it be practical to have the ESP P4 self-host?
clbrmbr on HN
What does RISC-V instead of RISC-5 mean?
From 1 comment
what does RISC-V instead of RISC-5 mean?
tosh on HN
Alternatives named
Earlier Oberon-on-RISC-V project solbjorg/oberon-riscv
From 1 comment
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:…
cxr on HN
MiSTer FPGA
From 1 comment
> 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…
OCTAGRAM on HN