Raspberry Pi Launched...

[Tyler Aviss]

ahhh, the memories of somebody accidentally bumping the gang-switch
accompanied by moans of despair from users with unsaved work... :-)
On Feb 29, 2012 10:20 AM, "Stewart Russell" <scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > Only if they make it optional.  Some people want their electronics to
> > shut up and stay unnoticed.
>
> Since the Raspberry Pi is so chock full of Acorn BBC Model B
> references (the name, the team, the [originally*] Acorn-designed ARM
> processor) it would've been a nice touch. Ah, the memories of turning
> on gang switch in the school computer lab, and having a room full of
> Beebs squawk into life ...
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
> *: I'll concede that there's very little in common with the
> instruction set sketched out by Sophie Wilson and used in the Acorn
> Archimedes, and the ARM9 in the RP, tho'.
>
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