Re: Raspberry Pi revisited
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 31, 2012
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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.)
Fine...whatever...just don't act freaking helpless about some minor stupid thing like this is my point. 2 seconds to query google showed me that it was MB, and is a lot quicker than asking a simple question like this and waiting for a response. It makes the questioner look like a troll.
This is not the first time that EUWX has been dismissive of EUWX's own typos: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/119388.wc
Err...ok? Shouldn't we all be dismissive of typos? Why are we still talking about this?
Matt
