AEROS for Raspberry Pi public version available

[Iggy]

This is great news indeed as I can see thousands of young people learning to program on the Raspberry PI :drink:

Pity those poor kids can't be given an ARM system with a little more horsepower.
I like Pascal's idea, but unless he moves up to something like an A9 or A15, I'd favor the X86 version.

[Iggy]

You've got to remember this is still a beta stage project, so you might expect there to be bugs.
Claus seems committed to steadily improving it.
And ARM is definitely becoming a serious player.
The A-9 was a nice improvement over the A-8.
A15 is very nice and A-57 could seriously kick ass.

So I think its the right ISA to support.
Plus you can freely negotiate a license for it.
Try that with X86.

[Iggy]

Well the best programmer I personally know credits his first computer for his programming skills that had a whopping 20Kb of ram:p
Just imagine

Oh heck, that's nothing new.
My first system had 16K of RAM (and at the time I thought that was a lot).
RAM constraints aren't really that big a deal anymore.
But I remember when the 512K expansion for a Coco3 cost more than the 128K Coco3 cost itself.
I learned to write code in small modules under OS-9 that could frequently be used by more than one process (since the system only had to load one copy as the code was re-entrant).
I still tend to break things into small parts.

Funny, I was just discussing using that OS on an AtariST with some old friends since that version is still floating around (and the Amiga version was marketed at $600 per copy).