Raspberry Pi and America,

On 4 July 2012 02:08, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: Absolutely. Now, tell me, how many of them do you see powering desktops and laptops? Workstations? Servers? Very few. They're in all manner of pocket electronics, and embedded into a billion bits of consumer tech and white goods. They're not sitting driving screens and GUIs. They used to be. At one time, they were the great white hope that was going to vanquish x86. Well, in numbers, they do. But not in money, and not where x86 is strong. That is more of an Intel/Microsoft duopoly than ever. (The competition is stronger than it's been in 15y, but still...) I'd like to see that change. I loved my Archimedes. It was a fantastic desktop computer. I'd like a modern equivalent, some slick fast silent-running monstrously-powerful device with no active cooling and a sleek thin fast OS that you can open up and learn about. I.e., not Windows and not any form of bloody Unix. Bring back BeOS, or Lisp Machines, or something /different./ It's high time. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884