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On 16/01/12 10:15, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, tom wrote: > >> On 16/01/12 08:29, Kai Hendry wrote: >>> Aren't folks getting a little _too_ excited by Rasberry PI? I must say >>> it's getting a absurd amount of coverage from BBC et al. >>> >>> It's a toy, an education device. The specs are super low, yet people >>> ask me if repeatedly if Webconverger will be ported to it. You can't >>> hope to browse in a modern manner on 256megs of RAM I'm sorry to say. >>> >>> It's not even great for driving a Webcam. >>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/raspberry-pi-as-autonomous-surveillance-system#p9283 >>> >>> >> No - its not just a toy - its a small compact computer. As such you >> can do just about anything with it. >> 256 M Ram was quite common on a lot of usable low end android devices. >> It might not run badly written bloatware but the CPU is around 1000 >> times more powerful than the old DEC machine I used to use with 20 >> other engineers and 130 secretaries on 1 meg of ram. And its got a >> gpu too.... > > The other side if this is that we're now dealing with 1000 times more > information than we used to deal with 30 years ago - even though we > don't think we are... > > e.g. putting a character on a screen - that used to be one byte down a > 9600 baud wire... Now it's a high resolution bit-mapped "graphic" on a > screen that uses more memory just for the display than your old DEC > machine had in total. No-longer is a 80x25 character display acceptble > either - it has to be multi-colour, transparent in places, > proportionally spaced, WYSIWYG, full of eye-candy. That soaks up > resources too. > > If only we could go back to the old days... But I'm not sure they > really were 'good' though... > > Gordon > That explains why the .deb file for head over heels (linux version ) is 15mb where as the original 8 bit game was about 32 k Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq