The original release of FreeCAD was in 2002. The RPi4 will handily outclass anything anybody was running it on at the time.
You have to stay in the limitations you have, but that's true on any system and always has been.
You have to stay in the limitations you have, but that's true on any system and always has been.
I guess education? Especially given the pi is very cheap and can be used for all sorts of other things?
Well, it did about 2-3 months ago when I found the system - an ancient Dual 3GHz Xeon (Nocona era) with 5GB of ram - and pt Win7 on it just to see if it would work.
It was even fairly usable.
Some software that needed more recent CPU instructions (~SSE something?) didn't work, but Firefox seemed ok.
Interestingly, no modern Linux distribution was able to boot. Wouldn't even get into the installer. FreeNAS 11.2.<something> booted and worked fine.