I’m pretty sure quite a few people who frequent this forum are old enough to remember running C/Pascal/FORTRAN/etc compilers on much smaller, slower, machines than a pico 2.
Good grief, Atari STs, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, IBM PC-AT - all able to do the job in their day, none anywhere near the cpu power of a pair of 150MHz ARM cores. I’d hazard a guess that the PIO could be made to connect a disk or facsimile of one. Could another be persuaded to output tolerable video - somebody made a basic graphics card that way IIRC?
Good grief, Atari STs, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, IBM PC-AT - all able to do the job in their day, none anywhere near the cpu power of a pair of 150MHz ARM cores. I’d hazard a guess that the PIO could be made to connect a disk or facsimile of one. Could another be persuaded to output tolerable video - somebody made a basic graphics card that way IIRC?
Statistics: Posted by timrowledge — Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:05 pm
