Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Martin Sevior schrieb: > > 6. Sugar on MIPS hardware (that will never happen with windows). > > Yeah, and who outside of some hardcore geeks really cares about that? > This might be a nice story to tell at a Linux conference but I doubt > it's a selling point when talking to a teacher or an MoE...
Even worse - Windows NT was originally developed on MIPS machines (a bit ironic given that DEC's selection of MIPS over PRISM was the main reason that Cutler's team moved to Microsoft) and then ported to the x86, Alpha and PowerPC. In fact, this inspired an attempt to make a non PC industry standard (see "ARC" or "Advanced RISC Computing"). A little less off topic - it would be interesting to compare the current computing experiences for two groups: those who learned Lotus 123 and such as children in the early 1980s and those who "wasted" their time with Logo, Oregon Trail and that kind of thing during that same time period. That might give us some indication of what the results of teaching Word/Excel to today's children might be. -- Jecel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep