On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:40:48AM -0800, Chris Tofu wrote:
------------------------------ 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
What on earth for? It is not running Windows, it runs Raspbian (a modified
Debian Wheezy) by default. Aside from the fact that virus scanners are
useless in general.
since the pi uses sd storage, it might make more
sense to compare it's
internet capabilities with a tablet or smart phone.
What "internet capabilities"? It is a Linux box. Which mean you can do
pretty much anything (within the computational & I/O limits of the box - it
won't work as an IMAP-Server for 100000 users for example).
Kind regards,
Alex.
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