3 Jul
2012
3 Jul
'12
9:31 p.m.
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
It is a bit subtle, but in http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs we have
"Will it have a case?
Not for the first batch. We'll be making and selling cases by the
summer; you'll be able to buy a unit with or without a case, or a
case on its own. The education release later in 2012 will have a
case by default. There are lots of homebrew case discussions
on the forum."
The "educational release" (probably out in September or so to coincide
with the school year) should be considered the final product and the
current version should be considered a developer's preview version.
On the parallel thread about "interesting" computers such as Lisp
Machines or APL architectures, I design Smalltalk computers. Though the
first products will not be in the Raspberry Pi's price range, the plan
is to get there as soon as possible. Though the first version will use
FPGAs and Verilog, I have a friend who wants to build a TTL
implementation as an educational exercise. But that is the future and
this list is about the past :-)
-- Jecel
When I looked (after it was hyped i nthe press,
and after I had to
navigate past various Rpi pages to get the bits I wanted from Farnell), I
didn't see anything to suggest that this was not the final product.
Neither in the press nor on the sites I (briefly) looked at.
I think the hardware is fixed and final, and has been for a while.