Not forgetting Pi day on the 14 March if you write it in the silly american format the date is 3.14
Stuart -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 On 7 March 2012 21:48, paul sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/03/12 13:49, Liam Proven wrote: >> On 7 March 2012 13:38, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 07/03/12 13:33, Colin Law wrote: >>>> Out of interest, in what way is it not open? >>> It needs a binary blob for the GPU and to boot apparently. They also >>> "only" licensed the h.264 and one other codec bundle from broadcom for >>> that blob. So only certain video files will play back accelerated. So >>> it wouldn't do for a FreeView set top box, but would be good for >>> playing back pre-recorded/downloaded h.264 encoded video. >> Broadcom bought up the rump of what was Acorn Computers. Acorn >> designed and developed the ARM chip. >> >> (Interestingly, after Acorn was split up and sold off, the rump >> renamed itself "Element 14". This is now a trading name for Farnell, >> one of the distribution partners for Rpi.) >> >> Broadcom still employs Sophie Wilson, who (back when she was called >> Roger) designed the ARM chip, BBC BASIC and much of the BBC Micro. >> >> Rpi is basically a Broadcom GPU and video-decoder chip with a small, >> basic ARM CPU added in one corner. It's a very proprietary device and >> so are the Linux drivers. >> >> Something nobody is giving any attention to is that Linux is not the >> only OS for Rpi. It will also come with Acorn RISC OS, meaning a full >> networked multitasking Internet-capable GUI OS, complete with >> optimised BBC BASIC interpreter with ARM assembler, GUI editor and so >> on. >> >> Whereas it's a very low-spec system for Linux, it's a high-end one for >> RISC OS. For beginners, RISC OS may be a much more appealing prospect. >> > > Ohh i am sure I have a few games on 3,5" floppy that ran on an acorn > risc/os machine, in fact I may have a manual for the Acorn Archimedes > somewhere :) > > Paul > > > -- > > -- > http://www.zleap.net > http://www.ubuntu.com > > skype : psutton111 > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
