Does it run Minecraft? Well, since you ask…
Going by the number of Minecraft fans among my friends’ sons and daughters in the 8-12 age group, this is a great idea:
We sent a bunch of [Raspberry Pi] boards out to Notch and the guys at Mojang in Stockholm a little while back, and they’ve produced a port of Minecraft: Pocket Edition which they’re calling Minecraft: Pi Edition. It’ll carry a revised feature set and support for several programming languages, so you can code direct into Minecraft before you start playing. (Or you can just – you know – play.)
(tags: minecraft gaming programming coding raspberry-pi kids learning education)
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Martin Thompson with a good description of the x86 memory barrier model and how it interacts with Java’s JSR-133 memory model
(tags: architecture hardware programming java concurrency volatile jsr-133)