[Info-vax] [OT] Raspberry Pi, was: Re: Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-14, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2018-01-11, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>> So much for the Raspberry Pi being an excellent hobbyist or learning
>> platform.
>
> I think you are overestimating what it's supposed to be.  Like Eben
> stated, there are other bits of kit for the hardware enthusiasts.
>

The problem is that the Raspberry Pi is a really good bit of hardware
for some of the lower level things I would like to use it for.

The only thing which is missing is the documentation.

> Have you looked at any of the pure beginners tutorials that are
> available out of the box with a Pi?  The first one I looked at
> really had me thinking "Wow, I would have loved this stuff at the
> age of 7 or 8".  It was something like a simple text triangle but
> it was a pretty good introduction to mathematical progressions.
>

I understand what you are saying, but there's no reason why it
couldn't be both. It's especially annoying because some of the
other low cost and small form factor boards also come with poor
documentation (for example, the Allwinner based boards I have
looked at.)

On the plus side, some of the MCU manufacturers (such as TI) are
a lot better at the documentation. I just wish TI didn't have
some daft download export controls. (When I tried to download
some demo code from TI several years ago, I was routed to some
export control page and was never able to download the code...)

Simon.

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