Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT
Date	2024-10-31 10:23 +0000
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 31/10/2024 10:02, Pancho wrote:
> FWIW I'm not a traditional Linux/Unix person. When MS Win NT provided a 
> proper OS, I dropped Unix and was a MS Fanboi for 25 years. I looked at 
> Linux occasionally, but not seriously. Now I think Arm/Linux is about to 
> become a serious mass market desktop PC.

Neither was I. I was micro only, except cross compiling on DEC unix on 
two jobs.
I then get exposed to unix making it talk over modems. It made a great 
server. Especially on PCs - SCO unix was massive value for money, but a 
desktop? Dont make me laugh. You needed a sun SPARC at the cheapest to 
do that. But a PC with windows was a quarter the price or less.
Staff kept saying that linux was as good as unix, and it was, so it went 
into our servers, but there was no real GUI desktop environment to match 
windows till the early noughties. I was never a Fanboi - having to 
support it showed what a POS it was compared with Unix/Linux but what 
else was there?

So when I retired I tried the desktop - around 2005 I think. It was OK 
but I still needed a winPC for some apps, Then I messed with virtual box 
and installed my old windows PC in that and havent looked back.

I think my first PC was around 1985. So twenty years on DOS.Windows desktops

And now getting on for twenty on Linux. Wow!

-- 
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all 
private property.

Karl Marx

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Pi5 M.2 HAT Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-28 15:34 +0000
  Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-10-30 08:40 +0000
    Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-30 08:50 +0000
      Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-30 09:08 +0000
      Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-10-30 22:07 +0000
        Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-10-30 23:14 +0000
          Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-31 10:01 +0000
          Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-10-31 10:02 +0000
            Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-31 10:23 +0000
            Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-10-31 12:42 +0000
        Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-31 09:58 +0000
    Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2024-10-30 21:17 +0000
      Re: Pi5 M.2 HAT The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-31 09:55 +0000

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