[Discuss] EOMA68 Libre Hardware Standard and Libre Software project, currently crowd-funding (deadline expires 26th aug 2016)

lkcl . luke.leighton at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 12:38:36 UTC 2016


On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just ran across this computer a little while ago and now you pop up on the
> mailing list, neat.

 :)

> Your explanation of use cases for Marcin is important. It's the biggest part
> that's missing from the information I've seen about the project. The "but
> what can I do with it" question needs to be front and center, or at least
> co-equal with the libre and environmental factors.

 ... yeahhh... that would have been good to do right at the start :)

> It might be worth comparing it to other examples of computers that people
> are familiar with. For example, a table with the EOMA68, a Raspberry Pi, a
> Chromebook, a Microsoft Surface, and a Macbook (maybe add some phones and
> servers too?), would go a long way towards putting it into context. And it
> wouldn't necessarily suffer for performing at the lower end of the scale if
> you went on to explain that after a few generations of improvement you could
> swap out another card and instantly upgrade to higher performance,
> equivalent to somewhere else in the chart.

 huh.  hindsight's 20-20, eh?

 i'll see if i can work that in somehow.

l.


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