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[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

It's interesting that Dave mentioned education as a possible market for these. I thought kids were learning Javascript on their school-issued Chromebooks these days. It would be nice to teach students about the concepts of computer hardware architecture... but the Commander's architecture is kinda weird, being a hodgepodge of ancient (6502) and modern (FPGA), with bank-switched memory and the desire for backwards compatibility with Commodore peripherals hanging off of it like a lamprey. Sure, students could learn about computer architecture on it, but it's hard to see how it's better than other, cheaper options. Big money awaits if they can pull it off though.