Raspberry Pi 3B+ and fP go

[Mike Dawson]

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Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi 3B+ and fP go

Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit CPU

(SOURCE:  https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/ )

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The Pi B+ is a slightly different animal.  1.4Ghz Quad Core....Gigabit
Lan...but yes...an ARM 64bit processor.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus/

Just as the Z80 and the 68000 required different platforms/compilers back in
the day.....this obviously would too.
I'm simply looking at an existing target audience of 10million+ users and at
$35.00 per board and asking would it be worth it?
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The problem is that it would need to be compiled for the BCM.  It won't take
x86 binaries.  Certainly not insurmountable, but not something I can see
them rushing to embrace.  How long did it take to get a straight port to
FreeBSD?  And that was on the same architecture, with probably almost zero
porting required.  Historically, they've been slow to adopt new platforms.

On the plus side, it's a bit like any interpreted or bytecode-based
language, in that you could develop on it, and your product is automagically
valid on all the other platforms where there is a version in existence.
Developers wouldn't need to care about their target platform.
I've considered one in the past for Perl development for similar reasons,
but besides not having a need to at this point, it's just always struck me
as a rather inconvenient toy.  That, and I need another HDMI feed like a
hole in the head.  I have four on the TV, and four on a switch, and I only
have one free.  I was maxed before upgrading my TV a couple weeks ago.
There really needs to be a 10-port switch, as four is simply not enough.
First world problems, to be sure, but still...

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Once installed you don't need a HDMI monitor.
  SSH, VNC in.  Extremely stable and totally manageable online with APT.
Even the firmware
is updated via APT.  They put a ton of thought into it.

Yes....I considered it a toy until the 3B+ came out last month.  External
storage, combined with Gig speeds make it extremely powerful.
There are even tools to port your own flavor of *NIX to a compact image.
Coolest feature to me is, once you get an image up and running, configured,
debugged, simply make an image copy of the SD card and burn it to a new
SD card for archiving/future installations.  Slick.  Too small and too
powerful to ignore anylonger.

My two cents.

<MD>

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:21:07PM -0400, Mike Dawson via Filepro-list thus
spoke:
> Just a thought,
> 
>  
> 
> Want to highlight and sell more filePro?
> 
>  
> 
> The Raspberry Pi has been around for a while and the latest release of 
> the hardware is quite robust.
> 
> The Debian flavor of the OS comes with everything, and I mean 
> everything except for one product, fP.
> 
>  
> 
> With over 10 million units sold, and the new 3B+ that has a 1.4Ghz 
> Quad Core, 32Gig storage, and a GIG of RAM, I would
> 
> think that a mini Linux version of fP, (50 records max) might be a 
> wonderful way to improve your marketing presence,
> 
> while at the same time introducing fP to the next generation of
programmers.
> 
>  
> 
> Apache2, MariaDB, OpenVPN, RealVNC, SSH, PHP, Python, they're all part 
> of the Raspberry Pi landscape.  With the focus
> 
> of Raspberry being inexpensive programming language education for
students,
> why not fP?   I'm currently using one
> 
> to develop proprietary IoT applications for an energy management company.
> It screams and is the size of a pack of cigarettes.
> 
> My how things have changed..why not fP?
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> <MD>
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