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"Matthew Phillips" <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:fb22654a52.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk...
> In message <fsidnWai8qaY7GLTnZ2dnUVZ7rCdnZ2d@bt.com>
> on 31 Dec 2011 Brian Watson wrote:

> Well, they're not going to release it without a Linux distribution, that's
> for sure.  But if the licensing issues can be dealt with, and the USB 
> support
> and various other things can be written in time, then RISC OS may be there 
> as
> an option too.

Ha, that might explain why Sophie hasn't replied to my Happy New Year text 
yet <grin>.

>> Will the OS and BASIC be on board do you know, Matthew, or will there 
>> just
>> be a hardware call to an input device such as a disk drive?
>
> The Raspberry Pi boots from an SD card.  I'm not sure whether you would
> switch SD cards to boot from another OS, or whether there would be a boot
> menu allowing you to select the OS.

Well it's fired my interest and I never got any further in programming than 
setting up complicated templates in Protext/Promerge

>> I wonder if the Pi will get Richards Wildey and Fairhurst programming
>> again.
>
> Well Richard Fairhurst is certaibly still programming.  He is "one of the
> main developers for OpenStreetMap's map editing software, Potlatch 2". 
> See
>
> http://www.systemed.net/carto/
>
> His interest in maps has certainly not gone away!

So many of the 8-bit programmers made good careers in IT.

-- 
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
www.imagebus.co.uk/shop 

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