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Maybe you have to be an old fart... I was here for this last time, but then I remembered that 'last time' was 1981. This still looks like the most important th
by handelaar 15y ago
Maybe you have to be an old fart... I was here for this last time, but then I remembered that 'last time' was 1981.
This still looks like the most important thing of any kind for three decades to those of us who came out of the cheap home computer wave of the early 80s. (Me, I'm even closer to the Raspberry Pi heritage since I got my CS O-Level in 1987 with an IRC-alike network chat app for BBC LANs.)
So try not to cock it up, eh? :D
- joezydeco 15y agoI should throttle back my skepticism as well. I understand the intent of the project and I think it's a noble one. We've already lost an entire generation of potential programmers by not having something like this in the post Apple ][ / BBC Acorn / C64 era. Maybe I'm an old fart by thinking that we don't need a full desktop running at 1080p to make the kids happy, but what do I know anymore. It's an exciting and ambitious project that only the scale of current SoC systems can achieve. Unfortunately the environment also means licensing of cores and building of these highly complex chips by massive companies like TI and Broadcom. We're all afraid of obsolescence as things accelerate even more, of course, which is probably why we're so hard on Broadcom here.
- obarthelemy 15y agoActually I could never afford a C64 nor Apple II. ZX81 and Spectrum where the thing for me.