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by photojosh 2577 days ago
If nonproprietary is #1 issue for you, you could design your own CPU or emulate an existing one using a hardware design language and FPGA.

Although there's no way past proprietary chips, at least the open-source toolchains for them are coming along.

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> Although there's no way past proprietary chips

Yeah, see, that's a hold up for me. If I'm going to go through the effort of building something completely non-commercially viable than I want it to at least be completely open. And before you say anything, no, I'm not at all interested in making anything commercially viable.