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
>

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