With shipping and tax the One cost me £94.
The Flint 2 has been on sale for £115.51 twice in the last couple of months, 23% more, so not a huge price difference.
My takeaway from this is that the existence of RISCVuzz will make future verification much easier. Just run your prototype (or even an emulation of it) against a known good array of implementations.
Debian support for RISC-V is presently only in Sid (testing release). So not production ready.
When I ask people what it will take to get RISC-V into stable releases the answer is always ‘better access to test hardware’. Hopefully this is a step along the way.
My final year project at University was building a real time simulation of the human peripheral hearing system on an array of T800s, written in Occam. The work continued without me as a PhD project.
What I had in mind at the time (once Moore's law reduced the size and power demand) was customisable hearing aids - the sort of thing that can now be done with AirPods Pro.
For a certain generation of system engineers it seems like early exposure to parallel programming on Transputers helped them get a leg up in distributed system design, especially once multi core systems came along.
The TMS9900 architecture lives on in TI's MSP430 line of MCUs, and they're everywhere. You probably won't get through today without interacting with a bunch of things that have MSP430s inside.
"Like many processor designs, the 9900 didn’t die, it provided the basis of TI’s current 16-bit MCU line, the MSP430 series. The MSP430s instruction set is heavily influenced by the 9900 and largely retains its memory architecture and orthogonal instructions."
My main gripe is that Dependabot can end up raising multiple PRs for the same dependency bump in the same repo (especially with Dockerfiles). I really wish I could tell it to do rollups e.g. `@dependabot rollup #1234 #1235 #1236` or something like that.
To save having to do multiple rounds of merge PR, rebase next PR, wait for CI... I end up doing my own rollup PRs by merging the various Dependabot branches. At least Dependabot is smart enough to close all of the original PRs when the rollup is merged.
The episode does a good job of explaining that the language hit a sweet spot of easy to learn, and easy to implement on the limited hardware of early home computers.
Seems to be a similar story for del.icio.us, which expired on 2026-05-02