21 Dec
2018
21 Dec
'18
7:09 p.m.
On Dec 21, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 12/21/18 3:30 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
The Raspberry Pi?s are a pretty impressive little tool for situations where they have
enough resources. For the purpose of emulation, they?re a great platform. The problem is
less with the Raspberry Pi, and more with emulation as a whole. In other words, this is a
software issue, not a hardware issue.
I?m afraid I?ll have to agree with Jim here.
When talking about Retro Gaming, in most cases, the Raspberry Pi, while better than
nothing, aren?t as good as the real thing, especially in regards to video and audio.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
I was asking from a position of ignorance because I've not used either. I have some
colleagues at work that use the Raspberry Pi. So I know of, but not about, it. Now despite
what I just said about the Raspberry Pi, I have three of them around here, one is a small
VAX running OpenVMS 7.3, one is a DPS-8 running Multics, and the other a KL-10B running
TOPS-20. I had dreams of building a VMS cluster of RPi 3+?s, but have kind of gone off
that idea, due to the superior performance I get using my VMware Cluster to host VAX
instances.
I'll have to check out the DPS-8 and KL-10B.