In the first post of this thread
Along such lines I was quite interested when Fido showed me the article
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... s-in-china
describing a project in China to develop six textbooks for use with an educational computer based on the Loongson 3A5000 quad-core.
Aside from the dog developer's wagging tail, two things struck me about the project: The operating system is a customized Linux distribution with educational software preloaded and the hardware is a non-x86 RISC design.
According to the analysis in
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/04/09/l ... best-shot/
see also
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/02/26/l ... xtensions/
the 3A5000 is comparable to the first generation AMD Zen architecture except with lower clock speeds. Fido claims the performance is also close to a Pi 5, but my suspicion is that's just barking.
There is more about the project at
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dLb1U4wFuYwSEVUyCaiuqA?s=31
translated by Google as
https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog ... r_pto=wapp
If anyone knows anything about the six textbooks and what topics they cover, I'd be very interested to hear more.
It's been a little over three years since this thread started. The idea of an inexpensive computer designed for education is as demurely attractive to me as ever. The combination of up to date course materials and hardware is still difficult, yet people keep trying and that's what's important.The SuperPET was an educational computer developed in cooperation with the University of Waterloo as an inexpensive environment for students to learn programming and released as a product by Commodore in 1981. Thirty one years later the Raspberry Pi was released in cooperation with Cambridge University as an inexpensive computer for education. This project aims to explore the similarities and differences of the design, implementation and impact these two computers had on education, the hobbyist, the maker community and the industry in their historical contexts.
Along such lines I was quite interested when Fido showed me the article
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... s-in-china
describing a project in China to develop six textbooks for use with an educational computer based on the Loongson 3A5000 quad-core.
Aside from the dog developer's wagging tail, two things struck me about the project: The operating system is a customized Linux distribution with educational software preloaded and the hardware is a non-x86 RISC design.
According to the analysis in
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/04/09/l ... best-shot/
see also
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/02/26/l ... xtensions/
the 3A5000 is comparable to the first generation AMD Zen architecture except with lower clock speeds. Fido claims the performance is also close to a Pi 5, but my suspicion is that's just barking.
There is more about the project at
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dLb1U4wFuYwSEVUyCaiuqA?s=31
translated by Google as
https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog ... r_pto=wapp
If anyone knows anything about the six textbooks and what topics they cover, I'd be very interested to hear more.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:11 am