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As I remember it the Raspberry Pi was originally conceived as a latter day BBC Micro[1] for people to learn on. The Pi’s A and B naming scheme for instance har
by Lio 3y ago
As I remember it the Raspberry Pi was originally conceived as a latter day BBC Micro[1] for people to learn on.
The Pi’s A and B naming scheme for instance harks back to the Beeb B.
The A in Arm originally stood for “Acorn”, the company behind both the BBC Micro and Arm processors.
The Beeb was also the host computer used to develop the first Arm processors.
So there’s something rather nice about this investment. It feels like a natural fit.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- dspillett 3y ago> The Pi’s A and B naming scheme for instance harks back to the Beeb B. And, in fact, the BBC Model A. As with the Pi models, the biggest difference between the BBC computer models A & B was RAM: the A having 16KiB and the B 32KiB. There were other differences too, but these were not as significant to many: a particular chip that provided IO, and the external ports that cam with it, were only available on the B or an user-upgraded A, and this also provided a couple of timers that one or two bits of software used (so there was some software that was model-B only despite fitting in the smaller RAM of tjhe model-A).