Hi!
The Raspberry Pi idea seems like far more work than necessary. All the more reason for choices. So that those who can explore this door can, but those who want access to freedos on hardware can enjoy this as well. The lack of a keyboard made this a nonstarter as far as I am concerned.
This might be a misunderstanding. The Pi Zero has USB, so you can connect a keyboard to it without problems. However, somebody did mention the Pi Pico, which is not part of the normal Raspberry Pi family at all, while confusingly using the same brand name. The Pi Pico is more similar to an Arduino controller: A controller, not a general purpose computer. You are not supposed to run DOS there. For those wanting MANY details, there is a huge list of devices here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberry-pi.html Normal Raspberry Pi are typically 56 x 85 mm in size, Most users will buy those, as most models have 2 or 4 USB ports, HDMI, LAN and more. Some variants are a bit smaller and have fewer ports. The Pi Zero is significantly smaller, at 30 x 65 mm, which means that it has significantly fewer connectors, for example only 1 real USB port (the other one is for power supply) and no LAN ethernet connector: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero/a-tour-of-the-pi-zero So the Pi Zero is the bare minimum for a complete computer, while most users will prefer the normal models with more connectors, including LAN. This ends the list of Pi variants most computer users are likely to use. Raspberry Pi also sells "compute modules". Those are boards with the usual electronics on them, but without ANY of the normal connectors. Those are meant to be plugged into custom devices, but you can also buy generic adapter boards to just give them all the usual connectors. Finally, and not a classic computer at all: The Pi Pico microcontrollers are not similar to the Pi computers at all. They just make use of the popular brand name, but are meant for entirely different tasks, such as controlling your lights, a robot, a toy, a coffee machine etc. Those are not usable as normal computers. As the name suggests, Pi Pico are tiny, about the size of an 1990s chip, and people like to plug them into breadboards or solder them to their hobby projects. Again, those are not "normal" computers. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
