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Look out RasPi there's a new player in town

Don MDon M Posts: 1,652
edited 2015-05-14 13:49 in General Discussion
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/video_share

The $9 computer. I apologize if this was already posted somewhere here.

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  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2015-05-13 05:59
    It's a bargain, of course Erco beat you to it... ;-)

    http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/160980-9-Chip-Computer-the-Next-RasPi
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2015-05-13 06:39
    It made a rather meteoric rise to $1M. They wanted big sales so they could achieve economy-of-scale. They certainly got it. Hope the new Allwinner R8 pans out.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-13 08:09
    They have collected backing at an astonishing rate. I'll be looking forward to ordering some next year when they come out. Barring the arrival of other shiny things in the mean time.

    Poor old Microsoft is going to have to get it's Win IoT ported to that. And no doubt a bunch of other similar devices that will emerge in time. Given the vanishing price of hardware they are going to have difficulty making money out of software for them.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2015-05-13 10:05
    Apparently it also runs DOS, so it's all good.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-13 11:33
    Well, pretty much anything can run DOS under emulation now a days.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2015-05-13 12:45
    I ran DOS on my 1999 vintage Psion netBook...
    (190MHz StrongARM, 17MB free RAM. Ran the XTM PC emulator under EPOC ER5, later known as Symbian)
    There's stories about someone even getting Windows 3.0 to start on it.

    I used to run the DOS-based Stamp IDE on it.
    Worked great, but used to hang after uploading a program to the BS2.

    That's what really matters: Can it run a Parallax IDE?
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2015-05-13 13:01
    Heater. wrote: »
    They have collected backing at an astonishing rate. I'll be looking forward to ordering some next year when they come out. Barring the arrival of other shiny things in the mean time.

    Poor old Microsoft is going to have to get it's Win IoT ported to that. And no doubt a bunch of other similar devices that will emerge in time. Given the vanishing price of hardware they are going to have difficulty making money out of software for them.

    Microsoft? I don't think I've heard you mention them before...

    C.W.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-13 13:21
    ctwardell,
    Microsoft? I don't think I've heard you mention them before...
    Well spotted.

    When I talk of the perils of proprietary software and such I go out of my way not to name names.

    I slip up occasionally.
  • KeithEKeithE Posts: 957
    edited 2015-05-14 13:24
    > I'll be looking forward to ordering some next year when they come out

    Heater - would you buy an Allwinner chip given the alleged GPL violations? Has this been cleared up?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-14 13:49
    Interesting. I had not heard of such violations.

    Given that Allwinner joined the open source collaborative Linaro last year I would imagine they are looking to get their house in order in that respect.

    We shall see...

    This is a mess wherever you go in the ARM world. The Raspberry Pi runs Raspbian for example. Which I'm sure is open source compliant all the way down. Except for one little detail...you can't boot the thing up without the boot loader which is a closed source binary blob that runs in the GPU. Which is to say that an inscrutable closed source program owns your Pi at all times!
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