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Re: Raspberry Pi

Date 2011-12-30 23:45 +0000
From Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
Subject Re: Raspberry Pi
Message-ID <eb8bef4952.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
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 on 30 Dec 2011 Brian Watson wrote:

> 
> "Kulvir Bahra" <kulvir.bahra@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:8458fd55-9286-44c6-b8ff-85988fcd2695@v24g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> 
> > Anyone eager to get there hands on a Raspberry Pi the latest computer
> > at £16?
> 
> It's going to be a real experimenter's machine and will need a lot more 
> money spending on it to get it up and running ANYTHING like a CPC/PCW.
> 
> The £16 gets you JUST a motherboard and the bare essential chips.
> 
> Users will need to add a keyboard or some other input device, a monitor 
> (although a tv can be used as one), and an operating system.
> 
> You asked me "how about the Amstrad's Locomotive BASIC?" but I understand 
> the plan is that it will be very Linux-friendly.

It is hoped that RISC OS will also be available at the outset, or shortly
after.  This is the operating system (still in development) which was
produced originally for the Acorn Archimedes, as a successor to the BBC B. 
It comes with BBC BASIC, which may be of interest if you like BASIC.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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Raspberry Pi Kulvir Bahra <kulvir.bahra@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 07:26 -0800
  Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2011-12-30 23:16 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-30 23:45 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2011-12-31 20:31 +0000
        Re: Raspberry Pi Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-31 21:10 +0000
          Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-01-01 09:10 +0000
            Re: Raspberry Pi Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-01 13:59 +0000
              Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-01-01 22:00 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi Patric <patric@invalid.de> - 2012-01-04 15:54 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-01-05 12:32 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> - 2012-01-09 12:52 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-01-09 13:56 +0000
  Re: Raspberry Pi Craig Harrison <craig@geemail.com> - 2012-06-12 20:55 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-06-13 09:14 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi Craig Harrison <craig@geemail.com> - 2012-06-13 21:30 +0100
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          Re: Raspberry Pi David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> - 2012-06-21 12:18 +0100
            Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-06-21 15:53 +0100
              Re: Raspberry Pi Craig Harrison <craig@geemail.com> - 2012-06-24 22:14 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi "Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> - 2012-06-25 09:38 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> - 2012-06-13 13:05 +0100
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