Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Was wondering if anyone has looked at the beaglebone for porting, or using with, forth? Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 20:18:57 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87h9dscd3y.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="52eac348160ce62b68e4635eee7cc854"; logging-data="32463"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199AKh/tL4DXofRKYeu0XiM" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PKZFQ4GEM6ylT/xreKdmq86tlxQ= sha1:mesCGhk5AURL45V/czLOJwjpVfw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:47388 Darin Murphy writes: > From what I've seen the beaglebone "black" looks like a very > interesting board. It's a Linux board like the Raspberry Pi, a little more geared towards hardware hackers, and slightly more open. There's a slightly cheaper "green" version from seeedstudio.com if you want to save a few bucks. They've also announced a wireless version. These days the Raspberry Pi is a lot more popular, and the Pi 3 (quad core) is faster than the Beaglebone, maybe by 3x or so. I don't think it's feasible to do super low level hacking on any of these boards unless you're fairly experienced, if that was what you were thinking. They're good if you want to write or run user-level programs under Linux. If you want to hack low level, the Arduino has the biggest community and ecosystem.