From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Simon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 16:36:11 +0000 Message-Id: <5F276DA8-0D16-42C9-A1DC-EA4FC40EDBA3@quintile.net> References: <0cd144e079b9354209187e89b8a05836@quintile.net> <20180203201110.75A91156E80B@mail.bitblocks.com> <20180203234701.3460A156E80B@mail.bitblocks.com> <1517737551.350742.1258819600.2ACCBF6E@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1517737551.350742.1258819600.2ACCBF6E@webmail.messagingengine.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] RasPi why? Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc5191fa-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i bought one (well, my employer bought me one) as a desktop machine. i don=E2= =80=99t know where i could buy a headless pc or a used laptop for =C2=A330. i also have drivers for the hardware and an install process that takes 10 mi= ns (copy the image to an sd card). they are not perfect, but a good comprise for me. -Steve > On 4 Feb 2018, at 09:45, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: >=20 >> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018, at 11:46 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: >>=20 >> Not to mention The RasPis are poor at >> reliability. Even a xenon flash or near a RasPi could power a >> RasPi2 down! And since they do no onboard power regulation, >> people had lots of problems early on -- add one more USB >> device and the thing can become unreliable. >=20 > This is probably an impossible question, but I've got to ask: Why do peopl= e even buy RasPis? Like, for anything? Even when the first RPi was new, a se= cond hand laptop could offer far more processing power and reliability for t= he same price, sometimes excepting the disk of course. Add a base station wi= th the old printer port and there's some GPIO; not as much as a RPi, it's tr= ue, but there are ways around that. One alternative for GPIO is the actually= cheap boards from Ti or whoever which exist to interface Ethernet, WiFi, Bl= uetooth, or USB on one side (depending on the board) to GPIO and serial on t= he other. I think they're programmed in Forth, but I wouldn't be surprised i= f you can just download programs for them to do anything you'd want with rem= ote control. >=20 > --=20 > The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer