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This is a very strange comment for HN. I get the gist of what you're trying to say here, but your terminology is completely off base. You really should look up

by deelowe 11y ago

This is a very strange comment for HN. I get the gist of what you're trying to say here, but your terminology is completely off base. You really should look up the definitions for "computer," "touring complete," and well, actually learn a bit about the R-pi and arm computers in general. The R-PI is very much a full fledged computer or "PC" even. Microsoft's reluctance to fully port a desktop operating system to the device has nothing to do with it's technical merits. It's perfectly capable of running a full windows OS, if Microsoft were to choose to do so. BTW, their IoT platform is rumored to eventually offer desktop variants, so this argument will probably be null sooner than later as well. Otherwise, it's capabilities are damn near identical (functionally) to an X86 machine running Linux, BSD, Android, and a few other operating systems. There are limitations with IO and that sort of thing, which one has to take into consideration for any PC, but otherwise they are 100% functionally equivalent.

pen2l 11y ago
touring complete, hehe :) Anyway, yes yes I agree with the things you (and others) have said. I failed to say what I wanted to say correctly. The short and sweet of it is, sometime ago I proposed to a friend that I'd help him do some things really cheaply ... (because the R-pi is cheap!) and we eventually couldn't because we couldn't use things like Labview and so on. I shouldn't have extended this issue to terminology, whether R-pi is a computer or not, sorry about that. Basically the source of my complaint is being sliiightly bothered by the fact that when people call R-pi a computer, the everyday joe-shmoe takes from it that they can run x86 windows on it. They can't. They can maybe run Windows embedded on it (I think?) but certainly not proper Windows. I know and understand that R-pi is a computer by any reasonable definition, I'm just lamenting the reality of things in this one small respect.
- sklogic 11y ago
  Intel Edison

by deelowe 11y ago

pen2l 11y ago

touring complete, hehe :) Anyway, yes yes I agree with the things you (and others) have said. I failed to say what I wanted to say correctly. The short and sweet of it is, sometime ago I proposed to a friend that I'd help him do some things really cheaply ... (because the R-pi is cheap!) and we eventually couldn't because we couldn't use things like Labview and so on. I shouldn't have extended this issue to terminology, whether R-pi is a computer or not, sorry about that. Basically the source of my complaint is being sliiightly bothered by the fact that when people call R-pi a computer, the everyday joe-shmoe takes from it that they can run x86 windows on it. They can't. They can maybe run Windows embedded on it (I think?) but certainly not proper Windows. I know and understand that R-pi is a computer by any reasonable definition, I'm just lamenting the reality of things in this one small respect.

sklogic 11y ago
Intel Edison