All of the discussion about getting DVI to work and a modern DVI
solution made me start thinking about TDock again and what it was that
made me stop working on it. Largely is was simply lack of time, but
also I believe I also felt that while using RaspberryPi was maybe the
cheapest solution, somehow it never sat quite right with me to use a
1GHz processor with 1G RAM as a display terminal for a 2.4MHz / 32K
processor.
Like it has already been stated, if you are throwing a Linux box into
the mix, then why not just run VirtualT on the thing and be done.
Especially if you are bound to a dispay anyway. Somehow using a
lower-end microcontroller with a VGA output from a CPLD / FPGA always
seemed like a more "retro" solution.
Am I crazy for thinking this way? Or do the majority of people not
really care about "retro" value and only care that it is dirt cheap (or
as close as possible)?
Just curious.
Ken
