That is something that I know. That is why I suggested it might be cheap to explore the concept (at the bottom of my post) and part of why I'm curious to see ot

That is something that I know. That is why I suggested it might be cheap to explore the concept (at the bottom of my post) and part of why I'm curious to see others try. I personally have college experience in FPGA prototyping but primarily have focused my efforts on software development then and since, I wouldn't have much fun myself building an FPGA prototype of something like the 432 by myself. But if someone sent me a cute RPi-like board and an okay (doesn't have to be great) assembler/debugger for it, I'd certainly give it a try seeing if I could assemble something interesting like a compiler for a next higher-level language. If that same someone were to build enough of the boards to build an entire community of hobbyist developers more than just me, that would be even better and really interesting and the biggest reason to mention it as a curiosity on a site like this, not to do a one-off thing to scratch a personal itch but to wonder what a community of hobbyists could do together as a group.