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The olimex company just announced the: RVPC - a kit PC with a RISC-V CPU, and they say it'll cost US$1 (olimex.wordpress.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It will support PS/2 keyboards and VGA. Intended to be a learning platform for RISC-V coding, it's only got 2k of RAM. (I tried finding a 3rd party source for this announcement but I struck out, so I'm linking the actual olimex webpage. Not affiliated with them, just thought this looked neat.)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even at this price point isn't it more economic and sustainable to emulate a RISC-V device with already owned hardware. Especially since it's so low powered.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And an emulator doesn't require you to find a PS/2 keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean the agony of deciding which one to dig out of my bin of PS/2 keyboards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to say I definitely don't have a PS/2 keyboard somewhere in the basement, but that box got thrown away at least a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bet you feel like an idiot now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nope! Didn't even have to go out of my way. Turned up while I was looking for something else.