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Ok been lurking on this one since page 50 thereabouts, entertaining stuff. I am still curious / rather baffled about one thing : how hard is it to put together a working prototype, really? Am not talking about the FPGA core business - say you just want to slap a R-Pi or similar inside your jag shell, and fiddle with it until you have a working OS + a couple of emulators. This is not what they promised, but surely a basic emulation box would make a better prototype than *nothing*. I am not experienced at this stuff - hell last time I even assembled a PC was like 10 years ago - but I get the feeling that even I could whip this up in two weeks tops. So really, how much work would this be for a decent tech? A day? A week? Using existing software I mean. I am trying to understand why they did not even try. Does not compute.