Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi?

From	Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi?
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Date	2012-03-16 14:43 +0100
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> > From the Farnell, UK website :
> > "Following the successful launch of Raspberry Pi Board B we've seen
> > unprecedented levels of interest in this product. Stocks from
> > Raspberry Pi of the initial production quantity are limited and these
> > have already sold out."

Fine point: they have been sold but not delivered.

> > This doesn't sound like vapourware to me...

In light of the fact they said "whoops, we have a bit of a problem and we
can't ship anything" it should sound like vapourware because until they *do*
start shipping *something* that's exactly what it is.

> I do have to wonder what all the hype is about though.  There have been
> any number of cheap arm boards in the past.  The rpi doesn't seem to
> bring any technical breakthroughs.  Has nobody already put approx the
> same straightforward combination of parts on a board, without the
> undocumented chips needing binary blobs?  

The Pi also has binary blobs. And it hasn't shipped.

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