Blue Skying - A 71B Today

[Les Bell]

(06-26-2014 03:01 PM)Martin Hepperle Wrote:  ... 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.

Yep - the power consumption would be the problem. A low-power processor would be the way to go. If I was doing this sort of thing commercially, though, I would probably want to focus my efforts on one language, rather than spread development, documentation and support across a variety - but document the architecture so it's open for others to re-target.

I should stress, though, I'm not planning anything - just dreaming. I'm not likely to find time to play seriously with these ideas any time soon.