From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:21:02 +0000 (GMT), Bob Latham wrote:   
      
   > Before anyone makes the obvious claim, in my eyes a pi doesn't   
   > qualify as a PC.   
      
   It’s a personal computer. Remember, the original PCs were “personal”   
   because individuals could buy them and set them up for themselves. The   
   Raspberry Pi is, if anything, a further continuation of that trend.   
      
   More than that, it keeps alive some of the original spirit that has gone   
   from the Microsoft/Apple market: early PCs were hackable to some extent by   
   users (remember when you got BIOS listings in the Technical Manuals?), but   
   current proprietary machines effectively have a big sign across them   
   saying “No User-Serviceable Parts Inside” (and this applies to both   
   hardware and software).   
      
   Conversely, the Linux-running Raspberry Pi invites you to open it up and   
   mess around, both in terms of hardware and software. And this is   
   deliberate, by design.   
      
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