From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development Speed Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:47:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87v8zfvbrv.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87sfulx86y.fsf@telefonica.net> <87zgorvdc4.fsf@telefonica.net> <8735mjlick.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14123"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mPa9Ks4GiDikXjFiAkWljQLKi4Y= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 23 11:48:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n0Le7-0003WX-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:48:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39704 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0Le6-0005dk-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0Lct-0004rP-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0Lcr-0006jb-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n0Lcq-0001xd-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:47:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:282912 Archived-At: Po Lu writes: > Óscar Fuentes writes: > >> AFAIK there are multiple machines that offer more computing power (on >> terms of CPU, RAM, storage, etc) than the typical medium-range PC from >> 15 years ago. AFAIK a humble Raspberry Pi fits that description and it >> has a fraction of the propietary firmware most of those old PCs have. > > Raspberry Pis cannot run usably with 100% free firmware, while the old > PCs RMS was referring to can. Are you implying that it is possible to turn regular PCs from before IME into systems with 100% free firmware? There are multiple components on a typical system that use their own firmware, many of them are not writable.