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And shortly after Wirth launched his RISC-5 system, the original FPGA board went out of production.
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Which most likely wasn't predictable for him.

FPGAs were never that maker friendly, due to the whole ecosystem.

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It probably was NRND on mouser/digikey by then... not that there was much choice in 2013- you went with what you had instead of $1000+ dev boards.
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