[Tfug] Raspberry Pi PC

[Calvin Dodge]

You're spoiled, Keith! I was doing development on a 1.77 MHZ Z-80 with 48
KB of RAM in the early 80s!

(cue The Four Yorkshiremen).

Calvin Dodge

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I think it is targeted at teaching not professional development.  If you
> think minimalist and look back on history, we were doing development on 4.7
> MHZ 8088 processors with 64 - 640KB of RAM in the mid to late 80's.
>
> Before that the systems where even less powerful, such as the Commodore
> 64.  I think the CPU ran at 1MHZ and it had 64k of ram.
>
> Back it the day.... The Commodore 64 was even used in some businesses.
>
>
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Thu, 1/12/12, erich <erich1 at copper.net>* wrote:
>
>
> From: erich <erich1 at copper.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Raspberry Pi PC
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 9:00 AM
>
>
> Time was when we wanted the computing power.
>     Now 700mhz is acceptable because everything is now done
> in the cloud. But wait. They want this to be a development platform.
> Don't you need major processing capability to do compiling/building?
>
>
>
> Erich
> der.hans wrote:
> > Am 26. Dec, 2011 schwätzte erich so:
> >
> > moin moin Erich,
> >
> >> See,
> >>
> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439
> >>
> >> It says "version of Linux", but what distro?
> >
> > The FAQ lists a few.
> >
> > ###
> > What Linux distros will be supported at launch?
> > Debian, Fedora and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We hope to
> > see support from other distros later. We will be selling SD cards with
> > the
> > distros preloaded. (Sept 4 2011 – originally, this FAQ suggested that
> > Ubuntu would be supported. Because of issues with newer releases of
> > Ubuntu
> > and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu can’t commit to support
> > Raspberry Pi at the moment.)
> > ###
> >
> > http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
> >
> > Manufacturing has begun and they're expecting the first units by the end
> > of the month.
> >
> > http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509
> >
> > I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a Model B.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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