Im deciding whether or not I should get a raspberry Pi mainly for the curiosity of this link, http://www.skpang.co.uk/blog/archives/541
Does the raspberry automatically start up like a computer or does it take some clever programming to get it to look like that.
That is awesome, if I say so myself.
Im already getting the mini keyboard just because I can bring it anywhere and I do have a mini LCD monitor I can use. So is the raspberry worth getting for that purpose or not?
HazardsMind:
Im deciding whether or not I should get a raspberry Pi mainly for the curiosity of this link, http://www.skpang.co.uk/blog/archives/541
Does the raspberry automatically start up like a computer or does it take some clever programming to get it to look like that.
Kind of yes, Kind of No. It does boot to an OS image put on an SD card, but it doesn't POST and doesn't have a BIOS menu you can play around with; nothing really clever, unless you want to go out and do something crazy with it. It's certainly a nifty little device.
My Pi sits here gathering dust as the arduino is much more fun to interface to and program. Maybe one day I will do something with it. At least I got the tee shirt XD
Ok, Thank you both.
Riva:
My Pi sits here gathering dust as the arduino is much more fun to interface to and program. Maybe one day I will do something with it. At least I got the tee shirt XD
Yeah, I haven't really found it as a device to replace the Arduino for what I do with it, but It does make a great little media center.
What a change there's been to the meaning of "mini computer"...
danb35:
What a change there's been to the meaning of "mini computer"...
I dunno, it depends on what you mean by a mini-computer.
Lets see, the Data General Eclipse I started working on in 1979 had 2-3 120 megabyte drives on it. My Raspberry Pi has an 8 gigabyte SD card. I don't recall the amount of memory, but I think the initial machine was measured in kilobytes (probably 256K or 512K), and my r-pi came with 256 megabytes (newer ones come with 512M if I recall correctly). I wasn't able to find the frequency of the machine, but I have to believe the 700 Mhz of the r-pi would leave it in the dust. True, it doesn't have the 6250bpi tape drive, nor the terminal adapter that let the 5 of us in the group use the machine at the same time on our 24x80 character terminals.
Now, back when I worked at DG, one of the guys had a definition for what was a real computer. He said, take your IBM PC, and place it on top of his Digital PDP-8, and both computers will work fine. Now, put the PDP-8 on top of the IBM pc, and the PC would no longer work, since the heavier PDP-8 would squash it. That is perhaps the one area the old iron wins out (other than the consoles of the old iron, but then with the GPIO pins on the r-pi, you can create your own blinking lights).