[AccessD] Raspberry Pi

Hi John:

Note, that Python is the language that is built in to the compile OS on the
Raspberry PI. That is the same language that our list are built on, via the
work of Bryan Carbonnell...the language is very powerful.

Jim

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Subject: [AccessD] Raspberry Pi

I have read a lot of "it's too slow" comments from the (PC using) press, and
I expect that is true. 
  The general consensus is that it is the equivalent of a 1995 PC, in terms
of processing power and 
memory.  However it has an outsized video processor.  If that video
processor can be put to work as 
a general processor then we could have some awesome applications.  Likewise,
throw a small SSD on a 
usb port and you have an instant, pretty fast, pretty large storage.

What I expect to really happen is the Linux community to rally and bring
back the tightly coded apps 
that used to be so common on Linux.  This thing only has 256 Megs of RAM
with no RAM expansion 
possible so what ya get is what ya get.  However there is a huge community
building as we speak.  My 
hope is that something like the old Commodore 64 happens - huge sales, rabid
fan base, lots of apps, 
lots of fun.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

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