But you can drive display, there's libraries for driving a VGA monitor and add on boards. And you can also plug in a keyboard via usb It runs python which I su

But you can drive display, there's libraries for driving a VGA monitor and add on boards. And you can also plug in a keyboard via usb It runs python which I suppose is the modern basic, I believe there's a maximite (picomite) Project for running basic on it though. With SD card and screen support So you can get all this up and running, or you can do it yourself. Commanderx16 is aiming more for the retro computer crowd. I don't think the pi foundation ever aimed for that. I think you may be misinterpreting the BBC reference. The BBC was introduced as a computer to teach people about computers, it was widely used in schools etc. That's what the pi was trying to do. There is also the straight to basic element in there too. I don't think they were ever aiming to remake the BBC though