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Alrighty; never mind my riscos-ignorant reply, then. (I admit: I hate it.)

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...and there are two different flavors of compute modules: one that goes in an SODIMM slot and another (introduced with the CM4) that has a couple of

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Not to mention setting keyboard design back ten years.

And that, ladies and germs, is why the first thing I do with a new web browser is to configure it to start up on a blank page. I want to be able to go anywhere when I start up, and usually do. In my case, having a home page would be like having your car automatically go to the Walmart across town when you really want to go to a specialty store three blocks away in the opposite direction.

You'd still get the delay for every new web page - it would just be in two parts: a standard delay to display the empty-page window, and then a second delay whenever a new page (probably a new web server) is requested.

I tend to set my browsers to load a standard new page because I usually want to see what's been happening in the world whenever I open the browser or a new tab of the browser. But I can see that it's a matter of personal preference. Some people prefer to bring up Google or some other search engine by default. Some want a clean sheet.

The important message is that the 3B+ runs FF painfully slowly and with a heavy CPU load, whereas the 4 runs it fairly quickly - still slower to load the browser and a page than my old Windows 7 PC, but not painfully so.

Maybe they could've had something if they sticked to letters for the form factors and numbers for the versions, but Zero confuses the two and then Compute goes off in its own direction. Adding 'W' at the end to indicate wireless support makes sense at least, but then they're not consistent with that either because they don't do it with the A+B boards.

Which people on the internet forget to mention, and that's caused me trouble before.

Pi 400 is on a better track - call the next revision the 401, for example. Shame the Pi 4 couldn't have been called the 410, then the keyboard model the 420 (leaving 400 for the Model A). Or better,

Also, IAR and Keil both produced C compilers for Intel's 8051. IAR also for the Z80. Since these are (or were) commercial products one assumes they produced decent code. I was actually involved in a project with a Z80 target and IAR's compiler back when. As I recall, there were some issues like it deciding to link in "a few" extra things so that the binary was maybe 3x the size of the ROM it was meant to fit in. But otherwise the project didn't have issues with software development as far as I remember.