Blue Skying - A 71B Today

[Martin Hepperle]

... sounds Raspbery Pi'ish to me - Linux, I/O and you can run everything, not just Python. Its form factor is similar to a HP 71B, but the power consumption probably too high for battery power.

On the other hand a Java VM in hardware would also be a good kernel as you can have Python, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Scala, ... on this machine via Java's scripting interface. There are at least 10 useable language available which run on this VM. This is more flexible than any other software platform I think. So a user can use the language of his choice, but still access the same core libraries for I/O, math etc. without effort. However i have not seen any BASIC, ALGOL, FORTRAN or FORTH implementation for the Java machine.

Martin