Re: Raspberry Pi revisited
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 31, 2012
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Please drop this thread of questioning. It was obviously a typo. He meant 512MB. I can't prove that you knew this, but can be annoyed by troll-like activity on a common sort of typo that's so easy to resolve (one post: snark, multiple posts: trolling).
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I didn't know it was a typo. The 2nd edition of early Pi computers used a cots video chip that just happened to have a cpu in it (the 1st version used separate video and cpu chips), that core seemingly wasn't designed to have an OS running on it. I know some ARM chips made then and now are artificially restricted to 512Mbytes, i seem to recall early ARM were 512Kbytes. For an embedded low end video chip to be restricted to 512Kbytes wouldn't be unimaginable. As someone who has an army of C64, and a few VIC20, i saw the early ARM as the successor to the 6502 family, and the upgrade vector to the 6502/6510, but early on they were just as limited in memory size. I wanted to know, and EUWX said "512K", so i was asking him. But it's obvious from his posts since then that he hasn't a clue, and you are correct, and i appologise for going astray from proper etiquette.
Still, I have to agree with Kat here. This was a typo that affected the meaning of the post, and when pressed for clarification, EUWX essentially dismissed it. (IF EUWX had said, "I meant 512m, not 512k" then I'd agree with you - but EUWX's very different response indicates something else to me.)
By the way, the Raspberry Pi are still in short supply.
I paid my deposit at the student bookstore and have been promised one in the next 2 weeks.
Also I forgot to mention that they now come with 512K memeory as standard.
How does tinybasic run on 512K of memory?
eukat
I am not too familiar with the product. You can try any of the above URLs. or try
http://www.golem.de/news/elternkompatibel-tinybasic-one-fuer-raspberry-pi-1210-95381.html According to them and I am quoting:
"Für den Raspberry Pi gibt es nun auch einen Basic-Interpreter. Tinybasic One soll mehr Leuten die Beschäftigung mit der für die Lehre und für Hobbyprojekte entwickelten Minicomputer-Platine ermöglichen - inklusive abschaltbarem Goto-Befehl."
You will probably understand that better.
This is not the first time that EUWX has been dismissive of EUWX's own typos: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/119388.wc