On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < [email protected]> wrote:
> At first glance, this looks a lot like a raspberry pi --- how is it > different? > It's a lot more like an Arduino Due<http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardDue>or Leaf Labs Maple <http://leaflabs.com/devices/maple/> - The Raspberry Pi runs Linux, which is not a real-time operating system. The Arduino Due or Maple boards don't run an operating system - your program *is* the operating system, in effect. So that means it's a lot simpler to write programs for boards like this. You can also write programs that are a lot closer to the hardware - that manipulate the system-on-a-chip hardware directly, something that's basically impossible to under Linux, if you need things to happen on a very precise time schedule, like in microseconds or even milliseconds. Linux doesn't (yet) provide that level of precision or simplicity. -adam -- Adam Feuer <[email protected]>
