And shortly after Wirth launched his RISC-5 system, the original FPGA board went out of production.

Which most likely wasn't predictable for him.

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

	▲	butvacuum 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.