Re: [9front] 9front on risc v

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:35:30PM +0200, Moritz Messner wrote:
> As the beaglev is (hopefully) coming out in the next quarter year, would anyone be interested in porting 9front to it? It would provide a (somewhat) cheap starting point at under 200?. And there has been some work on a risc v compiler...

Not to put aside or turn my nose up to RISC V---since with the 
absorption of ARM, alternatives are good to have and I have, too, bought
documentation about RISC V---but if the motivation is the price, there 
are Arm based Soc that, with a case, an external battery and an 
alimentation are available for less than 70 euros VAT included ($84) 
(for example with Olimex).

For a terminal, what costs much today is the display ("much" relative to
the price of the Soc).

For trying to build a cluster in order to experiment various ways of 
distributing processing, it has become quite affordable.
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