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Re: RaspberryPI

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On 5 Apr 2012 18:46:00 +0100
"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:24:19 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were
> rappin' to MC Duncan Snowden:
> 
> > Is there x86 code in there?
> 
> In FUSE?  It works on PPC, so no there isn't.  Unless there's
> something special about the X frontend that I'm not aware of.

Didn't think so. And he's using the SDL frontend on the framebuffer, so
no X.

I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing here. I *suppose* building
packages for whatever distro he's running on his Pi counts as
“porting”. It just seemed an awfully highfalutin' way to put it. And
maybe I'm wrong in assuming that there wasn't more to it.

But kudos to the guy for showing the wider Pi community what's possible
with the thing. It's totally awesome (like, dude) that it works at all.

> > [2] "Pis" just looked wrong.
> 
> Surely it should be nPI (where PI should be a PI symbol, but I'm
> restricted to ISO-8859-1 in this ancient newsreader so I can't type
> one, at least not without it being translated to something else at the
> other end), where n is an integer representing the multiple of PI that
> you intend to purchase?

Never thought of that.

And that's why, after thirty years, I'm still a bit crap at all this
computer-programming-geekery business. The only reason I know more than
the average bloke in the street is that I've been doing it badly for
longer. 

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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RaspberryPI hp <ferd@farkel.net> - 2012-04-04 15:23 -0400
  Re: RaspberryPI Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-04-05 16:24 +0100
    Re: RaspberryPI "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2012-04-05 18:46 +0100
      Re: RaspberryPI Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-04-05 22:44 +0100
      Re: RaspberryPI jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 17:58 -0700
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