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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 11:04 AM PST Allison wrote:
On 02/28/2013 11:45 AM, ben wrote:
That "low price is best trend" I would change. For me a modern programing tool
is "text editor" and 80x24 text screen on 15" display.
Explain to me why a cheap PC in my home can't keep up to the net (windows 7) and a
credit card computer can do better for surfing.
Ben.
Simple task specialization, and task overhead limiting. That and in7 is just a bigger
pig.
The average PC has many tasks running and even then unless the CPU is a pig and the
graphics
unassisted doing a web browse is usually limited to only how fast all the data gets
there.
However for 80x24 text terminal the cpu overhead is very low and the graphics load
(screen)
lower, linux give you that if you don't run the GUI and its very fast. I know this
from running
and ARM7 based system at 300mhz and for text and compiling code for itself the limiting
factor
is actually the disk subystem (a micro SD chip).
To e the raspberry-pi is a great computing resource for embedded tasks.
Allison
What about security? Does Rpi employ a firewall and virus scanning? And since the pi uses
sd storage, it might make more sense to compare it's internet capabilities with a
tablet or smart phone.