[Tfug] Raspberry Pi PC

[keith smith]

That machine must have cost several thousand dollars.  

The first IBM PC I saw was in 1982 and it was selling for about $3k.  I think I made about $13k that year.

I think they had an 8088 CPU and a small a mount of RAM, maybe 16k and dual 160k floppy's.   And of course the 14 inch monochrome monitor.

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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 1/12/12, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Raspberry Pi PC
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 9:24 AM

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.

   


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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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