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Yup. This sent me digging, and I soon found: > The last few weeks, I spent a little time getting Objective-S working well on the Raspberry Pi, specifically my
by Syzygies 5y ago
Yup. This sent me digging, and I soon found:
> The last few weeks, I spent a little time getting Objective-S working well on the Raspberry Pi, specifically my Pi400. It's a really wonderful little machine, and the form factor
and price remind me very much of the early personal computers.
The Apple II I bought in grad school in 1980 was roughly $10,000 in current dollars. I'm not sure how the price of a Raspberry Pi could remind him of this.
Judge his code, not his prose?
- em-bee 5y agothere were a lot cheaper personal computers. eg. trs 80 or comodore 64 both sold for around $600. still a lot more than a raspberry pi, but about the same factor cheaper than a real computer at the time.
- mpweiher 5y agoCommodore VIC-20 sold for $300, Timex Sinclair $100. I didn't adjust for inflation, as computers also largely haven't, and I wrote "reminds me". Not "is the same" or even "is comparable". The Apple ][ doesn't even have the "computer in keyboard" form-factor. And yes, the Raspi is unimaginably more capable. In fact, I still want to do a "how it started" vs. "how it's going" putting the Raspi next to my >$10K NeXT cube. The Cube with the 256MB, slow, huge, washing-mashine-noisy optical drive that can "hold your universe" (no it couldn't), vs. the Raspi's equally removable but silent and infinitely more portable microSD with 16GB (or more after-market). And both computers come/came with a copy of Mathematica. And I also still have the box for my copy of ParcPlace (!) Smalltalk for the NeXT. Maybe I should make a tiny box for ObjS just to have the side-by-side?