Recreating the ETH Lilith in 2026 (opens in new tab)

Those not frequenting the other fora might not have seen this : I am in the process of recreating the ETH Lilith, Niklaus Wirth’s 1980’s AMD2901 based Modula-2 workstation. Actual CPU design was by Richard Oran / Utah, several subsystems were implemented by various PHD students. The Lilith was following the Xerox Alto, which Wirth wanted, but couldn’t, buy for the ETH. My redesign closely follows the original, with subsystem altered to bypass old bottlenecks. New PCB’s have been redesigned t...