News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Commander X16. Parent comment

Re:Commander X16 by scj on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:12PM (#27210613)
I think a reasonably priced RISC-V psuedo-retrocomputer that boots directly into Lisp / Scheme on simple to use hardware would be a great computer to learn programming on.

Should be just as understandable to a newbie as a 6502 / Basic combo, but with a much better path to current computing environments.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Commander X16 by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:22PM (#27213995)
I was working on exactly this (though not to Lisp, per se) before I got distracted and COVID came. I was calling it "Retro-V". In Verilog, I had a RISC-V core hooked up to my own home-built video logic, and was working on the SD card controller before I shelved it.

In the meantime various RISC-V SoCs have come to market which could probably do the job well.

[ Parent | on HN ]