I agree with every part of this.
On Feb 17, 2018 5:12 PM, "Ken Pettit" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
