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    From Luca Saiu@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 27 21:00:41 2024
    Once in a while I toy with the idea of buying a GA144 development board
    to play with it, without any particularly practical purpose.

    When I looked yesterday I noticed that the server
    https://greenarraychips.com was down. It still is.

    Does anybody here know whether GreenArrays is still active? Even from
    my simple observer's point of view it would be sad to see them go.

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  • From Paul Rubin@21:1/5 to Luca Saiu on Sat Apr 27 16:31:54 2024
    Luca Saiu <[email protected]> writes:
    When I looked yesterday I noticed that the server
    https://greenarraychips.com was down. It still is.

    Down for me too, along with greenarrays.com and arrayforth.com.

    Does anybody here know whether GreenArrays is still active? Even from
    my simple observer's point of view it would be sad to see them go.

    Even if the company was no longer doing much, keeping the web site up
    would have been nice.

    Maybe someone acquainted with the GA folks could make an inquiry.

    Tbh I wouldn't know what to do with their dev board if I had one.
    Booting Polyforth on it and testing "2 2 + ." doesn't seem that
    interesting for a board that expensive.

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  • From Luca Saiu@21:1/5 to Luca Saiu on Sat May 4 01:08:05 2024
    On 2024-04-27 at 21:00 +0200, Luca Saiu wrote:

    Once in a while I toy with the idea of buying a GA144 development board
    to play with it, without any particularly practical purpose.

    When I looked yesterday I noticed that the server
    https://greenarraychips.com was down. It still is.

    Update: the web site is now back on, and specifies that the GreenArrays headquarters moved. The enterprise seems active.

    Nice. I might get a development board after all.

    --
    Luca Saiu -- https://ageinghacker.net
    I support everyone's freedom of mocking any opinion or belief, no
    matter how deeply held, with open disrespect and the same unrelented
    enthusiasm of a toddler who has just learned the word "poo".

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  • From Luca Saiu@21:1/5 to Paul Rubin on Sat May 4 01:09:31 2024
    On 2024-04-27 at 16:31 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

    Tbh I wouldn't know what to do with their dev board if I had one.
    Booting Polyforth on it and testing "2 2 + ." doesn't seem that
    interesting for a board that expensive.

    I like writing compilers. Targeting that platform would be a
    particularly difficult exercise, of course.

    --
    Luca Saiu -- https://ageinghacker.net
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  • From Paul Rubin@21:1/5 to Luca Saiu on Sat May 4 13:38:27 2024
    Luca Saiu <[email protected]> writes:
    Update: the web site is now back on, and specifies that the GreenArrays headquarters moved. The enterprise seems active.

    Ah nice, site is back up for me too. It says GA has moved to rural
    northern Missouri. Wow.

    Nice. I might get a development board after all.

    Regarding writing compilers, you should look at Tikhon Jelvis's articles
    about his Chlorophyll compiler for the GA.

    If it were me, I'd start out with simulation instead of a dev board. YMMV.

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  • From Luca Saiu@21:1/5 to Paul Rubin on Sun May 5 23:39:21 2024
    On 2024-05-04 at 13:38 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

    If it were me, I'd start out with simulation instead of a dev board. YMMV.

    That is good advice in general, yes. I might follow it, or otherwise
    choose fun over convenience.

    --
    Luca Saiu -- https://ageinghacker.net
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    matter how deeply held, with open disrespect and the same unrelented
    enthusiasm of a toddler who has just learned the word "poo".

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