Date   : Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:07 +0000
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: About ARM PC

On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 11:10 +1300, Michael Foot wrote:
> Quoting Alan Williams <awilliams@...>:
> 
> > I like the idea of having a SD card image for a Raspberry pi that just
> > booted to a Beeb emulation.
> 
> RISC OS and BeebIt can do just that. RISC OS will boot to a usuable state far 
> quicker than Linux can.

That might be true (I've no idea what the state of driver support for
Raspberry pi under RISC OS actually is today) but I have a hard time
believing that it's so much faster as to actually matter.  From the
point where the ARM starts running code, you could probably have BeebEm
under Linux booted on that hardware in about 3 seconds.  Even if RISC OS
did it instantly the difference doesn't seem like all that big a deal.

p.