Mark wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:55:44 -0000, "BartC" wrote:


"Bob Eager" wrote in message
...
Since the Raspberry Pi will be with us soon-ish (well, about six weeks I
am told, for mine) does anyone have any interesting ideas about what they
might do with it/them?
I'm not quite sure what the purpose of this machine is. Low cost? Once
you've added a monitor, keyboard, mouse, memory (and a PSU?), it won't be
far from the cost of a netbook. (Edit: just seen that it plugs into a TV.
Still, you need a spare TV...)

And what's special about it that it took six years to develop? (I used to
build prototype computer boards in a week or so.)

Perhaps it was the software? There's been loads of discussion about
the hardware but very little on the software, assuming that there is
any?

well its a not quite bog standard Linux port.
Give the power ram and disk, that means its about equivalent to a small
fondleslab style computer, minus the IO hardware.


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To people who know nothing, anything is possible.
To people who know too much, it is a sad fact
that they know how little is really possible -
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